Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > I'll give it a try, but I don't think the X66 will work: it is intended > for ATA/66, right ? Well the MVP3 (VT82C586B southbridge) only supports > UDMA/33, for ATA/66 I would need MVP4 (VT82C686 southbridge). At least > this is what the VIA docs say. > Besides, I'

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Axalon wrote: > > Well thats just not fair you have a newer "82C586 Apollo ISA" ;) Just got the mobo out of the box 2 weeks ago. It's a TYAN Trinity with s-socket 7. I run a AMD-K2-400 on it with 128 megs of RAM. Amazing how the prices dropped! wobo -- Linux Mandrake's Home: http://www.linux-m

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-05 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Axalon wrote: > > > > This board has the VT82C586/B, but the drive will still be a limit. > > > > -- > > Bus 0, device 7, function 0: > > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65). > > Medium devsel. Master Capabl

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Axalon wrote: > > This board has the VT82C586/B, but the drive will still be a limit. > > -- > Bus 0, device 7, function 0: > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65). > Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. > Bus 0, device 7, function 1: > IDE i

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-05 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
; Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 01:24:49 -0600 (MDT) > From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit > > > > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > Axalon wro

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-04 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > Axalon wrote: > > Try this on that MVP3 board you should see vast improvements > > > > -- > > # Optimisation of Hard drive. > > if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then > > LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.*' /var/log/dmesg|\ > > grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS|

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-04 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Axalon wrote: > Try this on that MVP3 board you should see vast improvements > > -- > # Optimisation of Hard drive. > if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then > LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.*' /var/log/dmesg|\ > grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS|DVD)'|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq) > for i in $LIST_HD;do >

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-02 Thread Axalon
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > Tom Fawcett wrote: > > I recently installed Mandrake 6.0. Shortly thereafter I started noticing > > hard disk problems that I couldn't explain, including filesystem corruption > > and I/O errors. I've had no problems with my disks before this. I

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-02 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 1:37 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit > I only had to comment out the script to get back UDMA/33 for the HD and > DMA support

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Tom Fawcett wrote: > I recently installed Mandrake 6.0. Shortly thereafter I started noticing > hard disk problems that I couldn't explain, including filesystem corruption > and I/O errors. I've had no problems with my disks before this. I > eventually tracked down the problem to this code in /

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-01 Thread Jay Summet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I too had filesystem errors until I erased the "-q -m16" part from the hdparm line. I personally feel that anything like this that even has the potential for causing problems for even a small percentage of users should be made an option to enable, not disable. If I hadn't been on this list, I pro

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-01 Thread Gerben Welter
At 18:37 6/30/99 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings. I have what seems to me to be a rather serious complaint/bug. > >I recently installed Mandrake 6.0. Shortly thereafter I started noticing >hard disk problems that I couldn't explain, including filesystem corruption >and I/O errors. I've had no pro

[expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-06-30 Thread Tom Fawcett
Greetings. I have what seems to me to be a rather serious complaint/bug. I recently installed Mandrake 6.0. Shortly thereafter I started noticing hard disk problems that I couldn't explain, including filesystem corruption and I/O errors. I've had no problems with my disks before this. I even