Re: [Cooker] IDE patches unstable?

2000-07-14 Thread Eugenio Diaz
--- "Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Thierry Vignaud wrote: I don't think it's an eide driver bug : it's just that the new driver stress more hardware (if your eide hd and controller reports to support udma, you just want to use it). Huh. According to

Re: [Cooker] IDE patches unstable?

2000-07-13 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Thierry Vignaud wrote: I don't think it's an eide driver bug : it's just that the new driver stress more hardware (if your eide hd and controller reports to support udma, you just want to use it). Huh. According to hdparm, it's not using dma at all. /dev/hdb:

Re: [Cooker] IDE patches unstable?

2000-07-07 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Mandrake 7.1 on several computers at work and everything worked flawlessly. However, I installed it on my home computer, and discovered a bug. My primary HD remains readable, but my second HD (slave drive on the same IDE bus) becomes

Re: [Cooker] IDE patches unstable?

2000-07-07 Thread Eugenio Diaz
For me, it's a hardware bug (hd or cable; eg, for udma66, lots of read error were due to bad cables ...) No way! The 2.2.17-*mdk rpms have IDE fucked up. On my machine it hangs (lock keys don't switch lights) when it goes to check the partition tables, with an UDMA time-out. 2.2.16-9mdk

Re: [Cooker] IDE patches unstable?

2000-07-07 Thread Civileme
Eugenio Diaz wrote: For me, it's a hardware bug (hd or cable; eg, for udma66, lots of read error were due to bad cables ...) No way! The 2.2.17-*mdk rpms have IDE fucked up. On my machine it hangs (lock keys don't switch lights) when it goes to check the partition tables, with an

[Cooker] IDE patches unstable?

2000-07-06 Thread Guy T. Rice
I installed Mandrake 7.1 on several computers at work and everything worked flawlessly. However, I installed it on my home computer, and discovered a bug. My primary HD remains readable, but my second HD (slave drive on the same IDE bus) becomes unreadable. Actually, it appears to read, but