Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:05:11 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: ALI M15x3 chipset support (EXPERIMENTAL) Migration... |
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I forgot the "l" 'crippled' and I can not spell.........
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Peter Steiner wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <andre@suse.com> wrote: > > >IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, (U)DMA > > > >This is an ATA-66 drive that has been cripped to ATA-2 and corrected to > >ATA-33. This can be fixed like I fixed the cmd646 code. > > What does "cripped to" mean? I bought it as an ATA-66 drive. > > Anyway, 2.3.40 now shows: > > |Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 > |ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > |ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > | ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > |ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled > |ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > |hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, ATA DISK drive > |ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > |hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) > > | -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > | -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > | 100 3200 99.5 13017 23.0 4715 11.0 2861 90.5 10019 10.0 125.7 2.9 > > |/dev/hda: > | Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 2.63 seconds =24.33 MB/sec > | Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.23 seconds =14.35 MB/sec > |Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. > > This happens with latest 2.3.x kernels (I don't know exactly when it started). > > |# free > | total used free shared buffers cached > |Mem: 62504 57340 5164 0 46640 2852 > |-/+ buffers/cache: 7848 54656 > > I don't think there's not enough memory free. More probably the buffer-cache > hash table is too small (1024 buckets). > > Peter > -- > _ x ___ p.steiner@t-online.de (Peter Steiner) > / \_/_\_ /,--' Linux User #55148 (http://counter.li.org/) > \/>'~~~~// > \_____/ perl -e'while(<>){s/=\n//g;s/=([\dA-F]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;print;}' >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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