Re: hda timeout waiting for DMA?

ion (ie setting it to N) has fixed my system - havent had the timeout message since. HTH Lex ---==--==--==--==--- Lex McPhail Systems Analyst/Programmer Systems Software & Instrumentation Ltd Christchurch New Zealand email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

What does the following message mean: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } It is coming up on my Debian 2.2.18pre21 potato installation quite regularly since I have compiled up a kernel to make the system a firewall + ipmasq computer

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

uch info on it and my system does not have a /etc/pump.conf file. Anyone know where there is info on setting pumpd up? Changed the eth0 to a static IP address and all seems to be ok. Thanks Lex ---==------==--==--==--- Lex McPhail Systems Analyst/Programmer System

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

g your resolv.conf.. Not sure on option to stop > DHCP doing this but can think of some hacks if you can't find stuff in docs.. Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for the info. Lex ---==--==------==--==--- Lex McPhail Sys

resolv.conf gets modified on boot

Hi All I'm a newbie to Linux and trying to setup a firewall / masq system on a computer with 2 ethernet cards. I have installed the 2.2.18pre21- compact kernel. I modified the resolv.conf file and added our ISP's primary and secondary DNS server IP so that the file now looks like: search .co.n