Re: How to Switch DMA off for only one Harddisk at Kernelboot

2007-12-17 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, Lennart Sorensen wrote: [...] Isn't it more a matter of having a CF card that does do DMA and a controller that does DMA, but a CF to IDE adapter that does not do DMA? If it is really a case of a CF card that claims to do DMA but is unstable if you try (I have found one model that does so

Re: How to Switch DMA off for only one Harddisk at Kernelboot

2007-12-17 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, Alan Cox wrote: [...] For the current kernel and libata you can use libata.dma=3, and it will select DMA for disk (1) + CD (2) but not CF cards. With the older IDE it should be sufficient to use hda=nodma Thanks a lot, but it does not work: If I use libata.dma=3 I get the following: [

Re: How to Switch DMA off for only one Harddisk at Kernelboot

2007-12-16 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, Gabriel C wrote: [...] Also have a look at Documentation/ide.txt. I read this already. Searching for "nodma" in this document gives only one line: "ide=nodma": disable DMA globally for the IDE subsystem. If the documentation is correct hda=nodma and ideX=nodma should not

Re: How to Switch DMA off for only one Harddisk at Kernelboot

2007-12-16 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, Gabriel C wrote: Oliver Joa wrote: Hi, Hi Oliver , how can I tell the kernel not to probe DMA for a specific harddisk (e.g. hda). My first Drive (hda) is a Compact-Flash Card which can not do DMA. The kernel tries at boot to switch to DMA but fails. If I use ide=nodma, the kernel

How to Switch DMA off for only one Harddisk at Kernelboot

2007-12-16 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, how can I tell the kernel not to probe DMA for a specific harddisk (e.g. hda). My first Drive (hda) is a Compact-Flash Card which can not do DMA. The kernel tries at boot to switch to DMA but fails. If I use ide=nodma, the kernel boots about 2 minutes faster, but then I can not switch on

Re: Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-04-11 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, David Chinner wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Oliver Joa wrote: Hi, since some weeks i try to get my new hardware running: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Intel DP965LT Mainboard Seagate SATA-Harddisk in AHCI-Mode After some hours of running or after

Intel DP965LT Mainboard running?

2007-03-30 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, does anyone have a running Intel DP965LT Mainboard? I can not get this Board running. You can see the Problems in the Thread "Corrupt XFS-Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel". Please can you give me a running Kernel-Config? Thanks a lot Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-30 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, David Chinner wrote: [...] Next time you get a shutdown, can you unmount the filesystems and run xfs_check and then "xfs_repair -n" on the filesystem. These will tell you the inode numbers that are bad. Can you post the errors reported by these tools? xfs_check gives this: bad format 0

Re: Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, Eric Sandeen wrote: [...] For one reason or another, xfs has detected a corrupted on-disk inode format which it cannot recognize, and shuts down. It is likely the result of something which has gone wrong previously. xfs_repair should fix it. Are there other non-xfs messages in your lo

Re: Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, David Chinner wrote: [...] What is the corruption message in the log from XFS? Can you please post that? Without it we really can't help you. Also, please check to see if there are any I/O errors in the log around the time the corruption message appears. Ok, here is a test: test:/# fin

Re: Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Joa
hi, Paolo Ornati wrote: [...] What Seagate is it? (hdparm -I /dev/sda | head) I have this one: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST380817AS Serial Number: 4MR08EK8 Firmware Revision: 3.42 Model Number: ST3160827AS

Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-27 Thread Oliver Joa
ut to change from xfs to ext2 but the filesystemcheck every 30 mounts lasts a long time. Do you have any Idea? Which kernel is at the moment a so called stable? Stable enough for my hardware? Thanks a lot Oliver Joa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern