Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:46:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems |
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Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing.
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. > > > > However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed > > the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going > > from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell to ATA33. > > > > You RHS 7.0 kernel does not have all the fallback and rules testing to > > keep things running the very best and in the safest way. Also you do not > > have the rules for testing if the driver/host/device register and report > > that all signals are valid and stable. > > Yes, I had some "interesting" modifications to a lot of my /usr when I > tried to activate UDMA4 under RH7.0 (I don't believe my hardware is > capable of UDMA4!) > > > If you did not set TUNING option if the chipset has it specifically > > flagged then you will not be able to retune the chipset/drive and the IO > > will be out of sync. > > Shortly after my first post, I noticed and activated the Intel PIIX4 > support + tuning. This got rid of the nasty errors but didn't get my > 17Mb/sec. > > Trying your patch now. > > Cheers > Chris >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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