Re: Swapping hard drive on G3?

Carl Hudkins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
Organization Department of Redundancy Department
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On Thursday 11 November 2004 00:33, Stefan Bruda wrote:

> My G5 SATA does not want to present itself, but two out of three ain't
> that bad.  The conclusion appears to be that the lack of DMA reported
> by the drive should not be taken seriously.

 I had been thinking that was probably the case, so thanks for that info.  
I've been using /etc/init.d/hdparm to disable DMA on the old drive, so 
I'll just leave the new one alone and see how it works.  (I still got I/O 
errors on the old IBM even with DMA off, so it didn't do what I was 
hoping anyway.)

 You say that DMA works... how did you test it?  hdparm to disable it, 
then hdparm -T -t to test, re-enable and repeat?  That seems to be the 
way to go from reading the docs.

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