Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:39:07 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch |
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 08:38:23PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > I think its significant that two reports I have are FIC PA-2013 but not all. > > What combination of chips is on the 2013 ? > > Reading through my mail logs, I know a board, either FIC PA-2011 or FIC > PA-2007 (I seem to have changed my mind somewhere in history) with a > 6.4G Quantum Fireball ST, 64MB RAM and an AMD K6-233. The chipset > reports as VIA VP2/97; sorry, I do not have access to get the PCI IDs.
PA-2007 is indeed a VP2/97, a very nice board, with vt82c595+vt82c586b.
> It locks up with DMA enabled, typically after a few hours, and has done > that since 2.1 kernel days. > > Unfortunately it locks up with Mandrake 7.2 which is not very old (based > on 2.2.17 kernels -- it's not my PC any more but I installed Mandrake on > it recently). > > Kernel option "ide=nodma" fixes this -- no lockups. > > After that "hdparm -X34 -d1" enables DMA and the board remains reliable. > I observed one lockup in several years, while X was starting so it could > have been X. -X34 does not change the results of "hdparm -t". > > Note that "hdparm -X34 -d1" enables old DMA, not UDMA. (The board was > advertised as UDMA capable but it isn't AFAIK).
It should be able to do UDMA33.
Is the board still available for some testing?
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