Mark wrote:
> Right now, I am trying "knoppix nofstab nodma 3". I noticed that at boot up
> with the knoppix cd, there was a message about enabling dma for /dev/hda (or
> hd1 & hda2 - not sure). Anyway, that may have been a problem.
No, that won't cause any problem unless your DMA is unreliable,
and then only when the disk is written. I haven't seen a machine
with unreliable DMA for several years.
> Anyway, without dma it takes a loooooooooooooong time to calculate a md5sum
> for a 30 GB disk!
It sure does.
> I don't think there is anything wrong with my drive or RAM. It has been
> reliable and I have not had any problems. I leave the machine on for days,
> and it still keeps on going. The a/c in my office has not kicked in yet, so
> it has been toasty (above 80), and the machine has never hiccupted. It dual
> boots Windows/Linux, and even the Windows partition works reliably! ;-)
Yes, your backup is likely correct.
-Dale Farnsworth
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