From: "Gustavo Guillermo Pérez" <madgus@gmail.com>
To: Marek Kierdelewicz <marek@piasta.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:57:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801071157.04573.madgus@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228040345.67db1361@catlap>
El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribió:
> 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.
Thanks to all for the information.
I know, that I'm not having the hardware, but some Intel mother boards sucks
some times.
> >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 :(.
Well, look, I use to build the system, then my customers and friends use a
clone of that, so ..., they never compile anything, you should not think like
that.
> Cheers,
> Marek Kierdelewicz
> KoBa ISP
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-07 17:57 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
2007-12-28 22:51 ` Shourya Sarcar
2007-12-29 2:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 17:57 ` Gustavo Guillermo Pérez [this message]
2007-12-29 2:12 ` Shannon Nelson
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