Re: File system corruption (Disabling DMA)

2002-01-09 Thread Edward Dekkers
> In that case... is there a way to permanently disable DMA transfers to a > particular device, or all devices? Must it be done at each boot up? I'm gonna need help here, I'm not sure how to do that in Linux. But I can set DMA for each device in my BIOS can you? Or does Linux override that? Doe

Re: File system corruption (Disabling DMA)

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Day
> Related? I don't know. I've used the same burners in D815 boards no problem > with DMA enabled, but I'm now very weary of VIA chipset DMA transfers. In that case... is there a way to permanently disable DMA transfers to a particular device, or all devices? Must it be done at each boot up? Mi

Re: File system corruption

2002-01-09 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Perhaps it is the disk controller, or some kind of IDE/DMA/WhoKnowsWhat? Interesting you should mention DMA. I have a burner sitting on that chipset on a Millenium box. It also has a WD 40Gb UDMA 100 HDD and a Pioneer 16x DVD UDMA 66 Both the Hard Disk and Pioneer drive function fine UDMA en

RE: File system corruption after RPM Updates

2001-01-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Jan-2001 Chuck Carson opined: > > I just had a very interesting time trying to install some updates. I > have a > cherry installed RH 6.2 box, installed with no GUI stuff what-so-ever. > I > applied all the updates from the update site except for any of the > kernel > updates. Several of t