Hardware Annoyances
Dec. 2nd, 2004 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI'm not sure what's wrong with my computer. I've always had a twonky hard-drive; it has a beta release of its BIOS because it was a remainder from work. 250GB for $50 wasn't bad, but it has always had a problem with UDMA6 setting, and now the behavior between it and the DVD drive is crashing my linux box. It's always a hardware problem with my linux boxen. *Sigh* I'm looking for a good PCI IDE Controller, since I have four hard drives and the CD and DVD recorders.
I moved a lot of stuff around, and the problem drive gets its own IDE channel now. It seems to be stable. I'm beating on the drive, writing six streams of television, reading one, and a heavy-duty processing stream for a DVD transfer. I wonder if the 2.6.9 kernel has some stabilization of the IDE controller, otherwise...
I'm just annoyed. If it's not one thing, it's another.
I moved a lot of stuff around, and the problem drive gets its own IDE channel now. It seems to be stable. I'm beating on the drive, writing six streams of television, reading one, and a heavy-duty processing stream for a DVD transfer. I wonder if the 2.6.9 kernel has some stabilization of the IDE controller, otherwise...
I'm just annoyed. If it's not one thing, it's another.
