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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HNwOh-0002Ix-He for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:29:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l24JRgqf010266; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:27:42 GMT Received: from stud3.tuwien.ac.at (stud3.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.75.13]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l24JRfit010261 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:27:41 GMT Received: from myeth1 (chello062178207208.8.15.tuwien.teleweb.at [62.178.207.208]) by stud3.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.3 (PHNE_29774)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26794 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:27:41 +0100 (MET) From: Bernhard Auzinger To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: System load during emerge Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:27:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200703041151.37846.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> <200703041735.16861.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200703041735.16861.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703042027.49014.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> X-Archives-Salt: c982465a-b73b-4489-ac2d-39c5dec63086 X-Archives-Hash: f1832723e3a87fab49208f82c37516bf > [Later...] I've now found that if I run "hdparm -d1 /dev/sda" from an X > terminal I get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device", but > when /etc/init.d/hdparm is run during boot I see [ok] for each drive. Looks > like I've got some exploring to do. As far as I know "hdparm -d1" is not available, because sata drives work with libata (within the scsi subsystem) which uses dma for all drives. rgds Bernhard -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list