From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 8 11:51:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC1A37B404 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g08JpMY28965; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:51:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:51:22 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Sergey Solyanik Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) Message-ID: <20020108145122.A28900@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020108191800.A1154@tisys.org> <3C3B3B24.5000002@netdeeper.sumy.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C3B3B24.5000002@netdeeper.sumy.ua>; from solik@netdeeper.sumy.ua on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:32:04PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:32:04PM +0200, Sergey Solyanik wrote: > I think that IDE Prefetch should be turned off on all machines around > > the world, scince it's total misunderstanding by hardware vendors. > > I never see the correct working IDE Prefetch on any (even on Intel/IBM > branded) machine. And in all strange data corrupt/spontaneous rebooting > cases disabling IDE Prefetch was a real trouble killer. > > Just search google for "IDE Prefetch" and you'll understand the size of > a problem. May be this need be in FAQ/Hardware section? If someone with the proper hardware know-how can write me, say, a paragraph on what's wrong with IDE Prefetch, I'll get it in the FAQ. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message