interesting. What server is this? if you are getting tons of errors i
am willing to bet you have a hardware problem. have you checked for an
updated bios? Also try something like fedora 6 or opensuse and see if
the problems persist.
first last wrote:
--- William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I hve a PE sc430 running sata drives. transfer rates are jsut fine
and
it show no DMA either. I think the DMA transfers run just fine in
sata
and do not need to be enabled by default. Also some disk tools in
linux
have not caught up to the sata revolution yet. If your tests show
low
transfers then you have an issue. I have the type of transfers
during
tests i expect so i think the tools are erroneously reporting dms off
because they don't understand sata drives yet.
I get terrible data transfers and lots of errors while writing to the
disk.
Well, it seems that I will have to wait until CentOS 5 beta :)
Thanks
Gabriel
first last wrote:
--- James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 23/10/06, first last <prelude_2_murder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to use CentOS 4 on this machine and it does not allow
me to
set DMA to 1, it just says that it is not possible. I have tried
updating to the latest release and it still won't work.
I have searched for it on Google and there is a thread mentioning
the
same machine and CentOS, but none of the solutions (-p, -X 12)
seem
to
work at all and there is no "it works!!!!!" message.
Is there anyway I can get DMA working or will I have to wait for
CentOS
5? Will any of the "unsupported" kernels work? (I would try
Ubuntu's
kernel on CentOS, as I am successfuly using that distribution,
but
it
is a bit stupid not to use SELinux and it probably wouldn't work
either).
I don't think you can use hdparm on SATA disks?
I know some BIOS's allow SATA disks to look like IDE 'legacy'
drives
(/dev/hdX) - if this is the case, then the OS may be using the
generic
IDE driver and it might not support DMA.
If this is what you are seeing, then you might want to turn off
the
legacy or compatible mode in the BIOS and use the drives via
/dev/sdX
...
I think this is the case, but there's no way to change the settings
in
the BIOS (that's dell for you). Any way to force the system to use
SATA
instead of P-ATA?
Thanks
Gabriel
James Pearson
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