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From: timothy parkinson <t@timothyparkinson.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: hauan@cmu.edu, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.1 "clock preempt"?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:02:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040123190205.GA477@h00a0cca1a6cf.ne.client2.attbi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074806504.21658.76.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>


On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:21:45PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:00, timothy parkinson wrote:
> > su -c "/usr/sbin/hdparm /dev/hda"
> > Password:
> > 
> > /dev/hda:
> >  multcount    = 16 (on)
> >  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
> >  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
> >  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> >  readonly     =  0 (off)
> >  readahead    = 256 (on)
> >  geometry     = 65535/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0
> > 
> > but...
> > 
> > su -c "/usr/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda"
> > Password:
> > 
> > /dev/hda:
> >  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> >  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> > 
> > it's an 80gig western digital from about 2-3 years ago.
> 
> Its likely you need to enable support in the kernel for your IDE
> controller, or your DMA on your controller isn't supported. 
> 
> thanks
> -john
> 
> 

so, apparently the problem was that i just needed to enable dma...  which meant
that i needed to set "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y" in my .config.

been running all night/morning with load - no "losing ticks" message or slowing
clock yet.  thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

think we could improve that error message?  i'd never have guessed that it was
hard disk related if you hadn't told me...

timothy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-23 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 20:36 2.6.1 "clock preempt"? Steinar Hauan
2004-01-20 21:26 ` john stultz
2004-01-21 15:06   ` Steinar Hauan
2004-01-21 18:19     ` john stultz
2004-01-22 19:37       ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-22 19:42         ` john stultz
2004-01-22 19:50           ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-22 19:54             ` john stultz
2004-01-22 20:00               ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-22 21:21                 ` john stultz
2004-01-23 19:02                   ` timothy parkinson [this message]
2004-01-23 19:17                     ` john stultz
2004-01-23 19:36                       ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-23 20:06                         ` john stultz
2004-01-23 20:38                           ` timothy parkinson
2004-01-23 21:04                             ` john stultz
2004-01-27 21:30                             ` markus reichelt
2004-01-30 23:32                               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-31  0:24                                 ` timothy parkinson

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