From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:11:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:11:22 -0500 Received: from aragorn.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.33]:29395 "EHLO aragorn.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:11:14 -0500 Newsgroups: cz.muni.redir.linux-kernel Path: news From: Zdenek Kabelac Subject: Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts.... Message-ID: <3A531DC5.49F5EFC3@fi.muni.cz> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:37 GMT To: David Woodhouse X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dual.fi.muni.cz Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: Czech, en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 In-Reply-To: <12542.978456659@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test13-pre3 i686) Organization: unknown Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > > The IBM DTLA drives aren't in the hpt366 bad_ata66_4 list still. I'm using this drive with my BP6 without any problems. But to have stable system I would suggest to not use UDMA4 mode if you are stressing you harddrive to much. Use UDMA3 (hdparm -X67 /dev/hd_your_ibm_drive) With this mode I've been unable to crash my BP6 with any load on my system) Also try to use latest BIOSes (RU) -- There are three types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't. Zdenek Kabelac http://i.am/kabi/ kabi@i.am {debian.org; fi.muni.cz} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/