hi,
with the upgrade to 2.6.14 my system has a horrible interactive feel.
$ uname -a
Linux alan 2.6.14-2-k7 #1 Mon Nov 14 15:33:15 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
$ lspci -v -s 00:07.1
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a
[Master SecP PriP])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
i hit the same problem reported by Curt:
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma = 0 (off)
# hdparm -i /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Model=Maxtor 6Y120L0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y3KGN5ME
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=240121728
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
* signifies the current active mode
and the same goes for hda.
i use initramfs-tools, and as far as i can tell *the via82cxxx module is
driving the disks*.
$ lsmod
[...]
ide_cd 43780 0
cdrom 40800 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 18944 8
ide_generic 1280 0 [permanent]
ide_core 130908 5 generic,via82cxxx,ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic
unix 28336 532
$ ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/
8139too PCI_IDE VIA 82xx Audio VIA_IDE agpgart-via parport_pc [...]
$ ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/VIA_IDE/
0000:00:07.1 bind new_id unbind
cheers,
alessandro
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