Re: Fujitsu MPE3136AT broken between 2.2.16 and .17pre13? (was: Fujutsu Hard Drives, joins Linux party.)

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 05:51:09 EST

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On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, David Ford wrote:

> Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> > Calling that hdparm command locks the box so hard it cannot log any
> > more. At that stage of boot, SysRq is not yet enabled, so for me, RESET
> > is the way out.
>
> FYI, sysrq is by default enabled unless you have modified kernel
> sources. Your distribution would _disable_ it at some point in boot
> stages.

Yup. Thank you. I just checked and my box (SuSE 6.4) is configured to
keep SysRq enabled (in /etc/rc.config), which means, the box locked so
hard SysRq went unfunctional.

-- Matthias Andree

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