On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:48:40AM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: > > Usually, this sort of thing is caused by an IDE subsystem which is not > > running in DMA mode. > > > > You can use `hdparm /dev/hda' to display the current DMA setting. > > Argh. This is embarrassing. You're quite right. I thought I had turned > on DMA ages ago... Sometimes the kernel turn it back off in presence of errors. Check your kernel logs for errors, this can indicate a drive starting to fail or some others hardware induced troubles. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users