Re: System clock loses time at approx 17 secs per two hours

2001-04-02 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
Have you considered using NTP (Network Time Protocol)? A.Sajjad Zaidi Eric Gillespie wrote: > First off, CC: back to me, as my machine can't handle an estimated 200 > messages a day for me to sign up to the list 8-( - Anyway.. > > I updated my kernel to 2.4.3 when the patch

Re: System clock loses time at approx 17 secs per two hours

2001-04-02 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
Have you considered using NTP (Network Time Protocol)? A.Sajjad Zaidi Eric Gillespie wrote: First off, CC: back to me, as my machine can't handle an estimated 200 messages a day for me to sign up to the list 8-( - Anyway.. I updated my kernel to 2.4.3 when the patch was released

Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
A-66) and havent gotten anything yet. Buffered disk reads are still about 36.50 MB/sec on the raid5 device, so its fast enough for what I need. Next step is to see how well Reiserfs works here. Thank you everyone who has helped. A.Sajjad Zaidi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
Mark Hahn wrote: > > drives (all IBM-DTLA307045 s) that I realised that the cylinder/head > > translation is different and I cant use the whole drive unless its > > partitioned while attached to the other IDE ports. > > no, it's just that the bios doesn't perform the LBA geometry lie > outside

Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
everything is fine, but hdparm gives me a mere 8.xx MB/s transfer rate. Anyone else have very similar problems? A.Sajjad Zaidi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
everything is fine, but hdparm gives me a mere 8.xx MB/s transfer rate. Anyone else have very similar problems? A.Sajjad Zaidi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
Mark Hahn wrote: drives (all IBM-DTLA307045 s) that I realised that the cylinder/head translation is different and I cant use the whole drive unless its partitioned while attached to the other IDE ports. no, it's just that the bios doesn't perform the LBA geometry lie outside the

Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
reads are still about 36.50 MB/sec on the raid5 device, so its fast enough for what I need. Next step is to see how well Reiserfs works here. Thank you everyone who has helped. A.Sajjad Zaidi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of