Problems with Knoppix

[Dale Farnsworth]

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