On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 20:03:00 +0300, Anton Liaukevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Bob Cox wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 14:48:22 +0300, Anton Liaukevich >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> I had scanned my hdd with native WD scanner and hadn't detected any >>> error. Memory scan (memtest86+) also hadn't detected any error. >>> Moreover, Windows XP on another partition of this hdd working >>> normally and HDD Health program on it (for S.M.A.R.T viewing) don't >>> predict T.E.C. in the near future. Also after previous installation >>> of Debian lenny my hdd was working fast. >> >> When you are running Windows XP, is DMA definitely enabled then? >> > I has run Windows XP and has been convinced of DMA to be enabled. My hdd > WD1200JB-00EVA0 was running at UDMA5 (ATA100) and cdrom Sony CRX320E at > UDMA2 (ATA33). [ PLEASE reply to the list and not directly to me. Thank you ] Ok well if you are sure about this then at least we know it is not a hardware (jumpers, cable, connectors) problem. With my WD IDE drive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep -i dma DMA 0 -> 4096 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 atp870u: use 32bit DMA mask. NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: UDMA/100 mode selected hdc: UDMA/66 mode selected hdd: UDMA/66 mode selected parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ readlink /sys/block/hda/device/driver ../../../../../bus/ide/drivers/ide-disk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep ^ide ide_cd 36224 0 ide_disk 15648 8 ide_core 108292 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,amd74xx,generic Not sure if any of that is of help, but perhaps you could show us the output of dmesg | grep -i dma -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]