Oh, I didn't realise -X34 turned _off_ UDMA. In fact I thought maybe it
turned it on on the drive!
So what's the option to turn it on?
> .. and that doesn't hurt? It's precisely what did lock my BX system.
I copied someone else who did something similar. Can't remember if it
was bad or not {:-)} but it inspired me and it seems to have fixed my
problem while getting me the same speeds as without it and DMA enabled.
Unless, of course, UDMA is even faster than anything I've measured so
I've never had UDMA running. (I'm getting about 9.2MB/sec from my
Quantum FB ST 6.4Gig).
> Won't "ide0=noautotune" do?
For a long while I had to use "ide0=nodma".
Now I don't need it, I just do -X34 during a boot script.
What would "ide0=noautotune" do?
It could lock up during the boot process before the script, but I don't
boot often enough to find out (now that the lockups don't seem to
happen...)
> One lesson is that the ide boot parameters should be less crytic!
> "ide0=udma" maybe? And hdparm needs a little extension too.
And somewhere something could give me a clue what my system thinks it is
now doing!
-- Jamie
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