Re: DMA questions

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:32:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Alamais wrote:
[SNIPPED]
> on this drive, and it seems to work okay in both Linux and Win95,
> but I'm still nervous (all those 'MASSIVE FILE CORRUPTION' warnings
> in the hdparm man page :P ).
>
> -kernel: hdd: CD-ROM CDU311, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> Can't CD-ROM drives do DMA too?
>
> (Apologies if any of this has been asked before,
> or if this is the wrong place to ask)
>
> Thanks,
> --
Run your system with your fingers crossed for at least an hour.
Try to do things that read and write files.

Then reboot with init=/bin/bash.
Once you get the `#` prompt, do:

/sbin/fsck -f /

If you do not have lots of fs corruption reported, count yourself lucky
and proceed.

If everything is okay. do the same thing on other file-systems (look
in /etc/fstab to see their names).

If everything still looks okay, do:

exec /sbin/init and the system will start up normally (yes, init will
still be pid 1).

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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