Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:01:42PM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 09:32 , Michael Renner wrote: > > I noticed various IDE/DMA errors when activating UDMA on IDE Devices > > whose > > controllers drivers were not included in the kernel. These errors > > usually > > show up immediately after activating UDMA when you stress the > > filesystem a > > bit (e.g. unpacking a kernel). If your server ran flawless the last > > weeks/months/years with udma activated its most likely a harddrive > > error.. > > I just let some heavy disk i/o stuff run for a few hours with UDMA off > and didn't get any errors. > > I think I'll still RMA the drive though. It's not doing anything > important now so it's not a big deal. I think I'll also grab a Promise > ATA card while I'm at it to use instead of the HTP366. Could you try the current -ac kernel, perhaps? It includes some IDE improvements which, amongst other things, fix some problems with certain HighPoint controllers. --Stephen
