Messages in this thread | | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.4.17 with VT8367 [KT266] crashes on heavy ide load togeter | Date | Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:12:01 +0100 |
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On Friday, 24. March 2002 22:18:21 David wrote: > Hi, > > First off, I'd like to thank Andre Hedrick for the link to: > http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html > > It was very helpful in making me understand why the performance of my > newly bought Adaptec 2400A IDE-Raid card sucked so badly in combination > with my VIA KT133 based board. > > I have done some testing (on the Win platform since that's where the > patches to remedy this situation are available) that shows quite nicely > how the PCI bus gets totally overrun by transfer rates in excess of > approximately 74MB/s and instead slows down. > > Short summary > ============= > Expected rate Experienced rate > 84MB/s > 50MB/s > 80MB/s > 64MB/s > 74MB/s > 74MB/s > (If someone is very interested, mail me and I can publish some transfer > rate graphs online)
Can you please redo with latest VIA fix applied?
PrePatch: http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/5.html Via Patch: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=66#raid Post Patch: http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/11.html
rpp1.02.zip
Thanks, Dieter
-- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de
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