There are several large fileservers at my work. They mostly utilize software IDE RAID5 arrays.<BR><BR>Recently, some of them have been having problems. The systems usually have 10-12 drives in the box ...

Linux founder and main developer Linus Torvalds has finally taken a stand on disputes that have been simmering for two weeks and made them clear: He will override the resistance to the DMA interfaces ...

At the last Boston Linux User's Group Installfest, I happened to overhear a conversation about enabling disk DMA. One person was explaining that he always regenerated the kernel after an installation ...

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