Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.24 problems [WAS: Re: IDE DMA problem [WAS: Re: Getting lousy NFS + tar-pipe throughput on 2.4.20]] | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:20:32 +0100 |
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On Monday 16 of February 2004 18:09, Timothy Miller wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Saturday 14 of February 2004 01:16, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > > Does 2.4.20 not work well with the KT600 > > > >>chipset? > > > > It doesn't, upgrade to 2.4.24. > > Ok, so we tried that. That caused all sorts of havoc, most of which we > might be able to figure out. It seems that RedHat's utilities and stuff > don't get along well with 2.4.24 if all you do is just boot the new > kernel. Seems a bunch of other stuff needs to be upgraded. > > Also, 'root=LABEL=/' doesn't work anymore in grub.conf, and there seems > to be no way to enable it. Is this a RedHat only thing?
This feature is not present in vanilla kernels.
> In any event, when we managed to get it to boot, it absolutely did NOT > fix the DMA problem with the KT600. Trying to enable it with hdparm > still says "Operation not permitted". We spend a LOT of time trying to > make sure we got the kernel configured right with all of the right > options, etc., but we're still without IDE DMA. > > Any further suggestions?
Do you have VIA IDE driver compiled in? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
If so, please send output of 'dmesg' command.
--bart
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