Re: disk corruptions on "tuned" disks Was: APM killing low-latency performance on BX mainboard

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 02:05:04 +0000 (GMT)

> > > On Pentium+ boxes, with not too old disks, the problem should be
> > > pratically inexistent.
> >
> > Correct.
>
> Is this true even for CDROMs in DMA mode
> (DMAed CDROM drives on Pentium+ boxes bugfree or not ?)

Don't know

> Alan, how do you stand to this IDE CDROM DMA BUG ?
> (pointed out by Dan Hollis)

I've heard Andre mention it and he knows more about IDE than I ever want to

> > of ensuring that the car delivered goes and the wheels don't fall off than
> > the hand tuning it. The latter is _very_ hard.
>
> Of course I agree 100% : the system should be reliabe and THEN efficient.

Right. So if you want to deliver the ultimate Linux GUI tuning app go for it.
But the default has to be safety first.

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