latest udev issue

Kim Lux lux at diesel-research.com
Thu Nov 4 16:11:53 UTC 2004


That is exactly what I was looking for.  Your drive isn't optimized.
unmaskirq should be enabled and it should use 32 bit support, not 16.

Thanks for replying.



On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:09 -0500, Neil B. Cohen wrote:
> I've not used hdparm - what am I looking for? This is the output of just
> running the command on my /dev/hdc device:
> 
> [root at nbc-linux ~]# hdparm /dev/hdc
> 
> /dev/hdc:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  readahead    = 256 (on)
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
> 
> If there is something specific I should look for, please let me know -
> Feel free to email me directly (nbc at cisco.com) and save bandwidth on
> this list...
> 
> nbc
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:59 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > Could some of you check your CDROM optimizations with hdparm ?  I am
> > wondering if FC3 kernels are optimizing them properly.  It might be a
> > udev thing.  See/reply to the "k3b: poor CDROM performance... " thread.
> > 
> > Sorry for intruding on your thread. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:24 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > > The latest udev update seems to allow only root access to /media/usbdisk.
> > > Although a mortal user can mount the device. Even an ls -l to the mounted dev 
> > > fails for the mortal user.
> > > 
> > -- 
> > Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc
> > 
> 
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Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc




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