Settings for hd drives are not enabled when there is a faulty HD in the IDE chain.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hdparm (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I have a faulty hard drive (hardware errors) attached as slave on IDE. As master
(same channel) I have a good/working and new hard drive on which Ubuntu is
installed.
The installer seemed to have done nothing with the settings file hdparm and all
settings are commented out.
My theory is that this is caused by the faulty drive that spurs out error
messages and confused the installer and not enable DMA or any other setting even
for the good drive. However when mounting a partition of the faulty drive, I can
read and write files.
The faulty drive is just attached to salvage data from it. When I'm done I will
remove it and hopefully a fresh install of Ubuntu will now set the correct
settings in hdparm.
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I don't expect a fix for this but on the IRC channel of Ubuntu, people
encouraged me to log a bug just for reference.
| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote | #1 |
The installer does not configure an hdparm.conf, and is not meant to. The
kernel automatically enables DMA on hard disks at boot, if appropriate.