Re: 2.1.130

[Joachim Wesner <joachim wesner frankfurt netsurf de>]

Dave Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   Th\is message comes to you from the keyboard of my LX running 2.1.130
> built with the latest EGCS snapshot; everything seems OK - I had to make
> one minor tweak to the source to get it to build:
> 
> --- linux/include/asm/spinlock.h.predag Sun Nov 29 00:04:19 1998
> +++ linux/include/asm/spinlock.h        Sun Nov 29 00:05:44 1998
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
> 
>  typedef struct { volatile int write_lock:1, read_counter:31; } rwlock_t;
> 
> -#define RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED { 0, 0 }
> +#define RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED (rwlock_t) { 0, 0 }
> 
>  #if DEBUG_RWLOCK
>  extern void write_lock(rwlock_t * lock);
> 
> The IDE interface didn't automatically come up in DMA, but doing
> hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
> 
> seems to have made it spring into its normal ~7MB/sec mode. (9% CPU)
> 
>

GREAT, will I be able to do this easily with RH 5.1 with all patches or
do I need 5.2 ??

Can't wait to really use my cheap, BIG IDE disk !!

Joachim