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.
That used to happen to my comp until I enabled UDMA.
And how did you do that? I have DMA enabled at the kernel level (USE DMA BY DEFAULT), but I don't know how to enable UDMA! hdparm -X66 ??
Isn't this more of a gentoo-user style question?
When I got this problem the 1st time I asked for help at gentoo-user. This message was also posted to gentoo-user. The reason I posted to gentoo-dev has to do with the following reasons:
1. Try to get some answer for a potential serious problem I couldn't get from gentoo-user or Forum archives.
2. To somehow alert developers to the problem. I had some other distros in the past, including Linux From Scratch, and never had this kind of problem. So there must be something wrong with the scripts or the way (order?) the scripts are running.
3. I would like to know how to debug the scripts. May be I could help.
Sorry anyway.
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