Messages in this thread | | | From | "Cagle, John" <> | Subject | RE: Compaq proliant ML-350 - IDE & SCSI | Date | Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:15:05 -0500 |
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On 04/07/2001 21:55:53, Alexandru Barloiu Nicolae wrote: > I am trying to use the DMA on the ide drives. After the reboot Dma is > enabled but if I don't disable it with hdparm the system freezes at heavy > work (copy something from a drive to the other). The SCSI works ok. Without > the DMA the system barely moves > > <SNIP> > > Any ideas what's wrong?
Which kernel version are you using? The OSB4 ide driver prior to version 2.4.2-ac27 causes problems on SMP servers. You may want to try a more recent kernel or remove the OSB4-specific driver and use the standard IDE/ATA driver instead.
Regards, John Cagle Principal Member Technical Staff ProLiant Servers, Compaq - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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