From: Marek Kierdelewicz <marek@piasta.pl>
To: "Gustavo Guillermo Pérez" <gustavo@compunauta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:03:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071228040345.67db1361@catlap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712271949.02116.gustavo@compunauta.com>
Hi Gustavo,
>By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a
>centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO.
I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors
and E1000 nics. Some information about it is available here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/165131/
There's no way that enabling this option could cause your hdd to fry.
>know the option was not supported, but I want to know if cause that we
>can have a fried hd :(.
>thanks in advance if someone has something to said about the
>failure. :(
>Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r7
I'm a gentoo@laptop user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding
because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best
distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(.
Cheers,
Marek Kierdelewicz
KoBa ISP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-28 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-28 1:49 Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2007-12-28 3:03 ` Marek Kierdelewicz [this message]
2007-12-28 22:51 ` Shourya Sarcar
2007-12-29 2:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 17:57 ` Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2007-12-29 2:12 ` Shannon Nelson
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