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Re: [suse-amd64] AMD Athlon 64 Linux hardware sanity check (not w ith SATA!)
- From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:35:51 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20040107083548.0028e5c5.ak@xxxxxxx>
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:49:59 -0500
Mark Horton <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andi
> I recently upgraded to 4GB of ram and I don't seem to have the
> corruption problems. I'm running hardware raid 0 accross 2 sata drives.
> I copied practicaly the entire root filesystem onto the sata array as
> a test. This was about 34G of stuff. My root filesystem is a normal
> IDE drive. I ran rpm -V -a before and after the test.
What kernel do you run? The old 2.4.19 kernel didn't have this
problem. It was only a side effect of some other changes in the 2.4.21
kernel.
> I have an arima hdama motherboard and I have IOMMU disabled in the bios.
> Any idea if this makes a difference?
It doesn't make a difference. Linux can use the IOMMU even when it is
disabled in the BIOS.
-Andi
Mark Horton <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andi
> I recently upgraded to 4GB of ram and I don't seem to have the
> corruption problems. I'm running hardware raid 0 accross 2 sata drives.
> I copied practicaly the entire root filesystem onto the sata array as
> a test. This was about 34G of stuff. My root filesystem is a normal
> IDE drive. I ran rpm -V -a before and after the test.
What kernel do you run? The old 2.4.19 kernel didn't have this
problem. It was only a side effect of some other changes in the 2.4.21
kernel.
> I have an arima hdama motherboard and I have IOMMU disabled in the bios.
> Any idea if this makes a difference?
It doesn't make a difference. Linux can use the IOMMU even when it is
disabled in the BIOS.
-Andi
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