[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

David Simmons wrote:

>
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> > hda: WDC WD200BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
> > hdb: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive
> > hdd: ST3400832A, ATA DISK drive
> > hda: max request size: 128KiB
> > hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63,
> > UDMA(100)
> > hda: cache flushes not supported
> > hda: hda1 hda2
> > hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
> > hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,
> > UDMA(100)
> > hdb: cache flushes supported
> > hdb: hdb1
> > hdd: max request size: 1024KiB
> > hdd: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63,
> > UDMA(100)
> > hdd: cache flushes supported
> > hdd: hdd1
> > EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
> > SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
>
> Welp....looks like all of your 'hard drive' slots are filled with 
> 'hard drives'....SO, your DVD must be a SCSI device?  If so, try  
> 'dmesg | grep sd' to find it's name.
>
> Dave
>
> P.S.  By the way - it's usually asking for premature data corruption 
> to run two similar devices on the same IDE cable (i.e. two hard 
> drives).  You'll get 1/2 the performance and run into head-aches.  
> You'll have much better performance sticking those other two 
> hard-drives on a separate IDE card - something like this:
>
> http://www.outletpc.com/c5571.html&fr=ADk8141l6eFNzdvcIN1ghV-fJX-gdOS3Yz6FMrxEjjnjAAAAAAAAAAA&gl=us&hl=en


Hmmmmm .... that P.S. is interesting, I never knew that. I have 3 IDE 
HDD's on the box & the IDE DVD burner. I had been having intermittent 
crashes under SuSE, some were ReiserFS or network panics, most were just 
silent (nothing in syslog file) lockups .... The DVD is definitely an 
IDE device, BTW ....

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