On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:15, Paulo da Silva wrote: > Hi! > > Both on my desktop and my laptop I had a problem with > hdparm. The system seemed to hang when starting hdparm. > > Because I didn't know how to debug startup (rc) scripts, I > decided to replace the original /etc/init.d/hdparm with a simple > hdparm script to act only on my disks. On the desktop the problem > went a way and everything works pretty fine. > > On the laptop a problem occurs from time to time. I can't tell when > and under which circunstancies that happens but the symptoms are > always the same. > > After the message "starting hdparm ..." the computer stops (hangs). > After beeing off for some moments (+-15s), the disk activity led blinks > one time, then it turns on and stays there forever. Only a power off > unlocks the system. After rebooting the file /etc/modules.conf is > always corrupted. "modules-update force" resolve the problem. > > Any ideas about what can be causing this?
You shoul post this to forums.gentoo.org or to the ml gentoo-user. As an answer, I would say : select "USE DMA BY DEFAULT" in your kernel config. -- Philippe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
