Rock solid scheduling isnt a property of a corrupt disk.
> It would be nice if we could collect some data about problematic
> drives / mainboards.
> Alan any know drives ?
The problematic stuff is almost all ISA. That makes life hard. With PCI we
can probe and pick up problem stuff (RZ1000 etc) The VIA VP1/VP2 are others
with interesting issues (our DMA autotune code fails on them)
> Is this more a harddisk issue or an mainboard issue ?
IDE controller issue.
> On Pentium+ boxes, with not too old disks, the problem should be
> pratically inexistent.
Correct.
> But such an automatic tuning/check has soon to be implemented into distros,
> in order to get the maximum performance out of the HW.
> ( Or are you not willing to try out the 5th gear of your Ferrari ? :-) )
Distributions have to work with as much hardware as possible. It's more a case
of ensuring that the car delivered goes and the wheels don't fall off than
the hand tuning it. The latter is _very_ hard.
Alan
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