Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: siimage driver status | From | Justin Cormack <> | Date | 03 Jun 2003 15:45:41 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:11, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote: > I have two drives (WD Raptors) on my A7N8X. I don't see any errors, even > after writing 9GB of data to the drive (after I've done an hdparm -X66 > -d1 /dev/hd[x]), but it still boots up in pio mode. > Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices > to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using > 2.4.21-rc6-ac1 > Thanks! > -Josiah > > > This issue was reported by at least 3 People here on the list (including > me) with different 21-rcX kernels. Seems noone really cared :-( > > I hope, this issue now get's addressed. > btw. I could speed up my Transfer-Rate from 1.7MB/s to 55MB/s by setting > hdparm -d1 -X66 on my two native SATA-Drives.
I think people care. Andre said he was working on a fix for the Seagate drives some time back. It does seem that all BIOSs leave SATA drives in PIO mode. That may be a bios bug really rather than a linux bug. But if you put the hdparm somewhere early in boot you should be ok, as a temporary workaround.
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