Re: Friday night aklug server

From: Greg Madden <pabi@acsalaska.net>
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 15:49:16 AKDT

On Thursday 07 July 2005 01:28 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
> There were problems with the server last Friday.
> 1. DMA was not setup
> 2. Transferring data from/to the server was very slow
>
> It was determined by others ( not me ) at the meeting that the DMA
> issue was causing the slow connection. I think connection speeds were
> around 1 to 2 megabytes/second. The Ethernet card and both switches
> can do 100mB/s.
>
> I'm compiling a new kernel with the DMA driver in the kernel. I've
> never done anything with DMA. Any and all info or suggestions about
> setting up DMA will be appreciated.
>
>
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In the kernel configuration, the chipset support for your box , Intel
BX, look under :

Device Drivers>
ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support?
Intel PIIXn chipsets support (BLK_DEV_PIIX)

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Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: (907)276-0461
email, confidential: pabi@acsalaska.net
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