[Sysadmin] Serious, egregious problem with Servermatrix Debian boxes

[William Anderson]

David Kaufman wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>4. DMA on the IDE interface is in fact also disabled at the
>>   BIOS level.

You sure?

> I have to admit I've never run into all these DMA issues myself.  So I'm
> not disputing them, but would like to investigate them to understand the
> issue.
> 
> Can you point me to some doco on this?  How does one test if DMA is
> enabled on an IDE interface

hdparm, thusly:

tempest:~# hdparm -d /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
  using_dma    =  1 (on)

>>...Anyone here have some extreme
>>kernel-fu?  Our box needs patching, and so does mine (I've now
>>had two failed attempts to sort it out result in total server
>>non-boot failure).

If we can secure some sort of oob access to the console, then sure, I can 
swing a nosey at it.

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