Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:49:36 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21 ServerWorks DMA Bugs |
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> [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] > > On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 04:42, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > Just the view from an insider in the know. > > > > Hmm, I certainly wouldn't expect a $3500 server to come with busted > > IDE, but thanks for the suggestion, we'll take extra care. > > You might also want to check with HPaq about BIOS updates. I have > seen a couple of boxes which didnt set DMA but meant to or did > after BIOS update.
Too late now, the machine is collecting IP accounting statistics for 20 C's, 24/7. Flashing the BIOS seems too risky given we're only using the IDE drives for nightly backups of a SCSI raid1 root fs. I guess I'll just write a simple script to see if the backup data tends to get hosed.
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