* Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-24 23:48]:
> Did you enable the dma engine in kernel config? There is three patches
> that could help:
I'm glad your email caused me to double check. While the dma engine
itself was enabled, some other options were missing. With the
following options en
Well... looks like there is something my slug doesn't like about the
install on my disc. Just created a fresh install on a new disk + fresh
flash of firmware, and the slug is now responsive. I'd still like to
figure out why the slug won't finish boot with my old disc. Any
recommendations, consideri
Looking at contents of my /boot dir:
apex.flash
config-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx
initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx
initrd.img-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx
initrd.img-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx.bak
System.map-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx
vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx
vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx
I would take a guess and say my kernel ve
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:57:33PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> The Thecus tarball I downloaded has hdparm 6.1, current is 7.7. I
> compiled 6.1 (on my desktop), and I get a factor two speed difference
> for hdparm -T (Timing cached reads), but no difference for hdparm -t
> (Timing buffered di
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I believe a bug was found at some point in hdparm that caused it to
> generate incorrect test values (of by a factor of 2 as far as I
> remember). This would cause comparing the results between old
> (broken) and new (fixed) versions of hdparm to look as if things
> had s
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:54:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> - First, I reverted that R_ERR on DMA activate FIS errata fix which
>you noticed in dmesg. Reverting this fix does not increase
>performance.
>
> - Second, I applied Intel's IOP patches from SourceForge but again
>t
* Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-24 14:01]:
> 1. Where do I get the .18 kernel image?
Probably
http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/sda1-2.6.18.dfsg.1-12.bin
although that really depends on the kernel you were running before.
If you write the kernel in flash and on disk don't match, your
* Stefan Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-24 09:43]:
> I had similiar problems after upgrading to a new kernel version
> (aptitude upgrade).
>
> I didnt even notice it till a power loss ocurred and the slug rebooted
> (the slug was running rock-stable for months). Symptoms were quite the same.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:54:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Oliver Kiddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-11 11:27]:
> > After installing Debian, I've found that the disc speed as reported by
> > hdparm has gone down. Before, I was getting:
> ...
> > Whereas now I get:
> > Timing cached rea
Three questions:
1. Where do I get the .18 kernel image?
2. How should I go about flashing my slug (Reset Button/Upgrade mode + upslug2?)
3. How can I make sure my slug doesn't auto-update or something like
that in the future?
Thanks for the help!
- jake
On 9/24/07, Stefan Sommer <[EMAIL PROTEC
* Oliver Kiddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-11 11:27]:
> After installing Debian, I've found that the disc speed as reported by
> hdparm has gone down. Before, I was getting:
...
> Whereas now I get:
> Timing cached reads:60 MB in 2.00 seconds = 29.95 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:
I had similiar problems after upgrading to a new kernel version
(aptitude upgrade).
I didnt even notice it till a power loss ocurred and the slug rebooted
(the slug was running rock-stable for months). Symptoms were quite the same.
The solution was to reflash the .18 kernel image. Now the kernel
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