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SubjectRe: Very slow IDE performance

Oh my, there exists one of those still, a classic Triton II mainboard.
The docs are real vague about what to do with setups.
Another night of PDF's again.........

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Brian Perkins wrote:

> /proc/pci:
>
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Intel 82371FB PIIX ISA (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> IDE interface: Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
> Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Trident TG 9660 / Cyber9385 (rev 211).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff400000 [0xff400000].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbe0000 [0xffbe0000].
>
> Some excertps from /var/log/messages:
>
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.2.5-15
> [...]
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf,
> BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: hda: M1614TA, ATA DISK drive
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE3.2A, ATA DISK drive
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: hdc: GCD-R580B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost atd: atd startup succeeded
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: hda: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=528/64/63
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE3.2A, 3079MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=782/128/63
> Aug 21 21:23:51 localhost kernel: hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 256kB
> Cache
>
>
> FWIW, this machine is undeniably strange; the default RH6 boot disk
> (which uses loadlin.sys ) would cause the monitor to go into
> power-saving mode after loading the initrd.( I think it would continue
> to boot actually, but the install process is sort of difficult this
> way). Creating a lilo based boot disk worked fine.
>
>
> --
> I want to be like Randy.
> Brian Perkins bperkins@netspace.org
>
>
>
>


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