From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 8 13:16:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8229437B400 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g08LGW761437; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:16:32 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200201082116.g08LGW761437@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nils Holland Cc: Soren Schmidt , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) References: <20020108191800.A1154@tisys.org> 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 I'm CCing Soren to make sure he sees this. This is good news! -Matt :It currently seems that the "IDE Prefetch Mode" option in my BIOS was :causing my crashes reported earlier today. When I disable it (and enable :softupdates, which I previously suspected as causing trouble), I can do :what I want to do without any problems. : :If anyone's had any similar negative experiences with the IDE Prefetch :option, I'd be glad to hear about it. In the meantime, I will let this :option turned off and see how the system behaves duing normal usage. If no :more problems occur, this option will remain disabled - I may lose a little :performance this way, but a system with slighly less performance is still :better than a constantly crashing system. Not to mention that I didn't :notice much of a speed difference when disabling this option anyway... : :Greetings :Nils : :-- :Nils Holland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message