On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tobias Bachmor wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Duccio Medini wrote:
> >
> > I'm having problems in enabling DMA on my lap...
> > [...]
> > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> > DID=5229
> > [...]
> > - what does DMA disabled (BIOS) means? On my BIOS I wasn't able to find
> > anything on HD DMA... also, my HD it is not in the DMA blacklist....
> It's not your HD, it's ypour controller. Which kernel are you using?
> Something older than 2.2.17 does not have a specific driver for the IDE
> chipset (which is an ALI 153x, IIRC).
> A newer kernel (or a patched one, see pathes in 'hedrick' on kernel.org) will
> help - at least it helped for me :)
>
Thanks a lot: it works! I've patched from 2.2.16 to 2.2.18.
The ALI IDE driver works perfectly, and now DMA
goes up by default. This is the performance upgrade:
OLD:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 16.58 seconds = 3.86 MB/sec
NOW:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.39 seconds = 10.02 MB/sec
Thanks again!
Duccio
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