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problem, leave AU-mode in the Gbox-section of Enigma's emu-menu set to
"00" (Off).
Ø I have been playing with several of the larger disks in my Dreambox (Maxtor
6Y160L0 and a WD) and experienced some very curious disk-corruption. I'm
using an ATA100-cable and seperate PSU for the disk, so that shouldn't be the
problem.The corruption seems to go away when turning off DMA- transfers
in the IDE-driver.At first, it looked like an LBA48-issue, but I shrunk the
partition from 160GB to 80GB and still experienced the same problems.
Turning off DMA makes things VERY slow and should be used as a last
resort.Since then, I replaced my disk with the 120GB-version from Maxtor's
same series (which is also on Dream Multimedia's "recommended"-list) and it
seems happy.I now execute "/var/etc/premount", if it exists, just before
mounting the harddisk, for those of you who want to experiment with their
own hdparm-settings.On the package my Dreambox came in, it says "Support
for internal HDD in any capacity", so this is probably a bug in the IDE-driver
included in Dream Multimedia's kernel and will have to be left for them to fix,
for now.
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