From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G0EPQ-0001E3-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:20:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6B9GCQr020329; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:16:12 GMT Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6B9GBWJ021595 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:16:11 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.140] (helo=anti-virus02-07) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0ELi-0000SS-GX for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:16:10 +0100 Received: from [82.33.156.118] (helo=linuxstation.homenetwork) by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0ELh-0002Hd-Pk for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:16:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma? From: Gavin Seddon To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1152608536.3568.15.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork> References: <1152608536.3568.15.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: University of Manchester Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:14:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1152609249.5737.1.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b8527ef2-9cbe-48cb-b40e-83b26812c82a X-Archives-Hash: 5a1f5e966c34880de5c69303d009ca7b I have found the dma module with lspci. Will still advise me on the rest? On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:02 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also, > occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot. Is this normal for > reiser? And, how do I turn dma on? A similar situation occurred with > all ext3 filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed > significant errors and wouldn't boot. So I put reiser on it. What do > you think's up? It appears to me to be a broken hdd? > Gavin. > -- > Dr Gavin Seddon > Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences > University of Manchester > Oxford Road > M13 9PL > UK > > > > -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list