Messages in this thread | | | From | Gustavo Guillermo Pérez <> | Subject | Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:57:04 -0600 |
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El Jueves, 27 de Diciembre de 2007, Marek Kierdelewicz escribió: > Hi Gustavo, > > >By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a > >centrino duo to try to get better performance on IO. > > I/OAT is for accelerating network operations on newer Xeon processors > and E1000 nics. Some information about it is available here: > http://lwn.net/Articles/165131/ > > There's no way that enabling this option could cause your hdd to fry. Thanks to all for the information. I know, that I'm not having the hardware, but some Intel mother boards sucks some times.
> >know the option was not supported, but I want to know if cause that we > >can have a fried hd :(. > >thanks in advance if someone has something to said about the > >failure. :( > >Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r7 > > I'm a gentoo@laptop user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding > because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best > distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(. Well, look, I use to build the system, then my customers and friends use a clone of that, so ..., they never compile anything, you should not think like that.
> Cheers, > Marek Kierdelewicz > KoBa ISP > -- > 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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