On May 31, 2002 09:17 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:48 pm, Richie de Almeida wrote: > > On May 30, 2002 11:00 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > As to hdparm, I found that with 8.2 and the default 2.4.18-6 > > > kernel, any hdparm settings were ignored. ata/100 drives still > > > ran at ata/33. I found installing a newer kernel instantly fixes > > > the situation. I'm usin 2.4.18-13 and no hdparm or lilo > > > settings. My ata/100 drives run at udma5, ata/100, hdparm -t > > > returns 40+mb/sec. > > > > Many thanks, installing a later version of kernel helped, I'm on > > 2.4.18-17mdk and hdparm reports I'm using udma5 instead of udma2. > > Richie > > Well good. Two things I should'a included and that you should be > aware of. I believe 2.4.18-13 was the last kernel compiled with gcc > 2.96, newer ones are with gcc 3.x (3.1 now). So you probly wouldn't > be able to compile a custom kernel usin kernel-source-2.4.18-17mdk on > a stock 8.2 system. The pre-built kernel rpm should be fine and > evidently is on your system. Secondly, I suggest you check the cooker > mail list archive (or lurk on the ML) when usin the latest kernels, > or any cooker packages for that matter. I do lurk and I don't > remember any special problems with -17mdk.
I kinda figured something was a little odd with -17mdk as I did try to compile it myself and selecting compiling for Athlon/K7 always failed and even when I didn't I got some funny messages about 'int's not being the right size-- I take it that gcc 3.1 uses more bytes for some data types-- whatever-- I'm going to install gcc 3.1 this weekend and see if things get better. FWIW, I got the boot parameters going, using "ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata66' on 2.4.18-7mdk. Strange how these parameters are asking for ata66 yet the system enables ata100 (hdparm tells me I'm at udma5)... Regardless it's great to have another method to fall back on if later kernels don't behave as nicely as -13mdk and -17mdk... Richie
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