On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 01:39:46PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> Hmm, this looks very wierd,
Oh yes ;-)
BTW no problem with win98 or Win2000 installation.
> how is your BIOS setup wrt to onboard ATA channels ??
> Try to use a "normal" ie 40pin cable, that will limit the disk to
> UDMA33 mode, if that works, well...
Will have to buy that. When I ran with the on board IDE chip I
had a drive mode (something like) mdma2. That worked even with
FreeBSD.
I now tried BIOS setup values.
First entered BIOS default values, which are turning off most
features, then I enabled SETUP defaults and then changed no
performance boosting things.
RAM Timing I changed to automatic 70ns, although I have 60 ns
RAM.
On chip PCI IDE is completely disabled.
Then I changed as a last resort method the mode to
hw.atamodes: ---,---,---,---,pio,---,---,---,
Even with PIO the drive has problems, but is then able to recover:
ata2-master: success setting up PIO4 mode on HPT366 chip
ad4: invalid primary partition table: no magic
this is. because I newfs'd ad4c on the whole ... quick and dirty
for testing...
now bonnie -s 100
ad4: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata2: resetting devices .. ata2: mask=01 status0=50 status1=00
ata2-master: success setting up PIO4 mode on HPT366 chip
done
ad4: timeout waiting for DRQ
How can I force the driver with kernel modifications to use
mdma2 mode or something like this ???
BTW, I have a 5 Slot PCI machine ...
in the first slot there is the abit controller in the last
the Matrox Millenium card. They share the same IRQ 15...
Is this sane ?
Or might my problem be SMP related ???
Well, have to go to the supermarket now ...
I'll remove one card later, to free one IRQ and will try to use
a single cpu kernel...
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