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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

We have a drive (8GB) that has a DRQ problem in linux, with numerous hda 
status timeout error messages when I try to do a whole-drive search.  I 
posted the fix for this a couple of years ago:
hdparm -i /dev/hda
Look for some number (MMX?) in the results, in our case 16:
hdparm -m16 /dev/hda   put into a startup file (rc in this case).

BL3.40 did not appear to have hdparm.  I ran it from BL2 (chrooted) and it 
fixed the problem.  I was then able to search without these resets and I 
found /initrd/DOS/temp/usr/sbin/hdparm, and copied hdparm to /usr/sbin.

Please put hdparm in 3.41 in /usr/sbin.  20K.  Or will the ext2 version be 
able to easily access it from /DOS/initrd/temp, at startup?

The problem occurred with BL3.40 (kernel 2.2.26) but not with 2.4.31, 
which I had been using with BL2 for camera access.

I no longer need to insmod vfat in rc.  Thanks.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org