Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:36 -0700 | From | "Paul G. Allen" <> | Subject | Re: IDE UDMA/ATA Suckage, or something else? |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Currently, I am running a 2.4.7-ac10 SMP debug kernel on my K7 Thunder > > and I was hoping things would be better, and if not then at least I > > could see something in the logs if it did crash/lock. I also compiled > > NVidia driver with debugging enabled. Things are no better as the system > > still locks up frequently while playing Quake 3, and I can't even start > > Unreal Tournament without it locking and requiring a reset (SysRq, > > logging in remotely, etc. does not work). The logs tell me nothing. > > Once you've touched the 3D stuff I dont actually care about bug reports that > boot even after 3d unloaded. I'm simply sick of fielding Nvidia's bug > reports. > > > What I have found is that if I disable DMA on my IBM ATA100 drive, the > > system is quite stable (though it is slow as snot - running at a > > ridiculous 4.5MB/sec. as compared to 35MB/sec. with UDMA33/66 enabled). > > You must disable IDE prefetch on the current versions of the AMD MP > chipset, you may also need to enable "noapic".
Unless I can do it with the kernel, I have no choice. The BIOS has no prefetch setting (which, BTW, I had disabled on all my A7V133 boards). So what about problems with non MP boards?
PGA
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