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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:19:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <773c9e03fdb75bc23d88836c96abb42a@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e605092207157e3e0f9f@mail.gmail.com>

> If you've ever tried to venti format a 20GB disk you'd know why it
> sucks to deal with.  I don't have 24 hours to wait for it to finish as
> this is also my main linux box for my day job.

perhaps you need

echo dma on >/dev/sdXX/ctl
echo rwm on >/dev/sdXX/ctl

i'm fairly sure it didn't take anything like that long when i set up my
32Gb arenas



  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-22  8:01 fgergo
2005-09-22 14:15 ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 14:19   ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2005-09-22 14:53     ` David Leimbach
2005-10-07  3:51     ` Thomas Miller
2005-10-07  4:11       ` Russ Cox
2005-10-07 10:21       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-07 15:49         ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-07 16:02           ` Russ Cox
2005-09-22 14:19   ` Russ Cox
2005-09-22 14:23     ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 14:38       ` David Leimbach
2005-09-22 16:11   ` Dave Eckhardt

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