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. >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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :(. Cheers, Marek Kierdelewicz KoBa ISP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/