Peter, I have had more issues with via and sis chipsets etc than non, over the years.
Elliott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] RE: Trixbox and DMA > > > These are IDE drives that we're using now. I had a problem > booting from > SATA on this MB for some reason. Still the same VIA problem? We're > inconsistently getting channel breakup for calls into the > queue, especially > when the extension number is announced. I was thinking that > a disk access > bottleneck might cause that. I could also increase the size > of the packet > buffers. What do you think? We're not large scale either and > we're not live > yet. I'm just doing some test calls into the queue. > > Peter M. > > > On 8 Feb 2007 at 16:25, Paul Wouters wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Peter MacFarlane wrote: > > > > > I tried setting the DMA "ON" with the -d but this was > refused. DMA > > > stayed off. The main message was: > > > > > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted! > > > > > > That's why I'm thinking that the VIA chipset is incompatible. > > > > The SATA drivers with VIA are problematic. You are probably > better of > > using an old PATA drive. > > > > > Is DMA normally ever stuck OFF? Doesn't this create a > bottleneck in > > > terms of processing speed? > > > > I don't think asterisk needs the disk that much for it to be a > > problem, but I'm not running a large scale enterprise > asterisk either. > > > > Paul > > Asterisk Telephony User and Installer. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
