Serverworks has OEM's who have BIOS's which are setup for a reason.
If the BIOS is configured for any reason the the driver stomps on the BIOS
settings there will be damage to the content on the media.
Just the view from an insider in the know.
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:38:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2003-07-06 at 12:10, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > Also note that when the '-X' switch is omitted (i.e. one only issues
> > > "/usr/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX"), the driver sets up a mode that doesn't
> > > work and then quickly falls back to PIO.
> >
> > Your BIOS has not tuned the drive for DMA either.
>
> IMO the driver should do that in that case. There are way too many
> broken BIOSes to make following what they decided to set up worthwhile.
>
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> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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