Re: DVD-RAM crashing system

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 17:54:46 EST


On Gwe, 2003-07-18 at 23:08, Svein Ove Aas wrote:
> My suggestion is this: As the hardware is obviously broken, and disabling DMA
> would cause a horrendous performance drop anyway, you should get a new
> chipset. Return the one you have as broken.

Update to 2.4.20. That will put IDE disks into MWDMA2 on the Serverworks
OSB4 and avoid the mistrigger with CD-ROM errors. The later serverworks
(CSB5, CSB6) is fine btw but can hit the CD-ROM mistrigger too

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