>Don't touch the timings. ide-pmac will setup proper timings depending >on the drive and the controller revision. If you think someting is >wrong, then send me what dmesg says along with a tarball of your >/proc/device-tree > >On the other hand, it's perfectly safe (and recommended) to enable >unmasking of irqs. > >I doubt 32 bits IOs will have any effect (I'm not sure it's properly >supported by the HW; but you shouldn't care with DMA anyway).
I confirm, stay away from 32 bits IOs. Another setting that may help giving you better performances or at least better responsiveness during transfers is to set the drive multisector count. I typically use hdparm -m 16 /dev/hda Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
