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Re: Stalled Boot on NSLU2

2007-09-24 Thread Stefan Sommer
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

Re: Stalled Boot on NSLU2

2007-09-24 Thread Jake McGraw
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

Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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 reads:60

Re: Stalled Boot on NSLU2

2007-09-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* 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. Did

Re: Stalled Boot on NSLU2

2007-09-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* 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

Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Riku Voipio
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 they

Re: Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Stefan Fritsch
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

Re: Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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 disk

Re: Stalled Boot on NSLU2

2007-09-24 Thread Jake McGraw
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

Re: Stalled Boot on NSLU2

2007-09-24 Thread Jake McGraw
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,