From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdwriter /dev/hdc question
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:01:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402061501.07857.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4023E5AB.7070502@tmr.com>
On Friday 06 February 2004 14:06, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Running 2.6.2 atm, but for quite a while in the 2.6.x series I've
>> had a line in /var/log/messages immediately after the dmesg dump
>> indicating that dma was being disabled for /dev/hdc.
>
>I think this is bogus, in that it is silently enabled again. Ask
> hdparm!
>
>I thought that message was either going to go away or be paired with
> a similar "I didn't mean it" message if the drive is reenabled, but
> I can't quickly find the discussion.
I did, its off before I turn it back on. Silly Q: If there is a
readable data disk in the drive, would it still shut it off? I'll
check that at the next reboot.
--
Cheers, Gene
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 13:25 Gene Heskett
2004-02-05 13:57 ` John Bradford
2004-02-06 19:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-06 20:01 ` Gene Heskett [this message]
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