Re: more on IDE and PPP on 2.2.2
Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 16:40:01 -0500
CaT wrote:
>
> Enrico Demarin wrote the following:
> >
> >
> > More on the umaskirq problem. Actually I -did- put an hdparm -u 1 for
> > the cdrom drive in my init scripts. however, hdparm fails with
> > "no medium found", if there is not a cd in the drive.
> > Don't know if it's a bug or feature.
>
> This fixed it for me to. And I had the same problems with hdparam.
>
> I downloaded the latest from http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
> (this is including the patch) and, using hdparam 3.5f I was able to use
> hdparam -u without a cd in the drive.
So don't use "hdparm" for this.
Instead, do: echo "unmaskirq:1" > /proc/ide/hd?/settings
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