On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 01:58:34AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 15:40 -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a super 7 mother board with ALI V chipset. This chipset is not > > directly > > supported by kernel 2.2, but there is a patch to support (and some others) > > at: > > > > http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ > > > > If I understand well these are the "official" ide developers for the linux > > kernel. So I am considering to give it a try. > > > > Anyone out there that got udma on ALI V working with this patch? > > Yup, works fine with my 2.2.3 kernel and Asus P5A mobo. Mind you, I had a > problem with IRQ timeouts, so that DMA couldn't be set, but it was fixed > when I got proper PC100 memory for some reason.
I installed it after seeing Paulo's message. According to hdparm -t, on my one UDMA drive (a Western Digital 6.4 Gb) I now get about 9.7 Mb/s versus 6 Mb/s before. Not bad! The other drives seem a bit faster too (which is good, because the 6.4 isn't my Linux root). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
