Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:41:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems |
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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
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