| sean finney on 4 Jul 2006 13:39:10 -0000 |
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hey, On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:48:20PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > <hdparm maintainer hat on> > hdparm 6.6 works just fine for SATA. Some of the ioctls are no ops, but > it doesn't do anything harmful. hey, cool to know. i'll keep that bit of knowledge tucked away somewhere for reuse. > Hrmph. I really don't know then. Do you have hw-random (or whatever > it's called) loaded? Does your board support any other entropy > gatherers? it's not loaded, or even an option: # CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set there are a couple specific RNG drivers compiled in, but neither load and i din't know if there's another way (it's an older poweredge system, maybe 1750). > A way forward (that is not really optimal, but I have heard of people > doing it on systems where they can't get enouogh entropy) is to rm > /dev/random, and link random to urandom. You get non-blocking IO in > exchange for only kinda pseudo random numbers. hah, that's a good one... hadn't even thought of that. we went ahead and bit the bullet with a reboot on this one, but if it comes up again i'll definitely consider this as a stop-gap option :) sean Attachment:
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