I think that at this moment that the mathematics of your cchhss calculations are in need of some attention, as well as the capacity numbers of the drive are in doubt.
"hde: 320173056 sectors (163929 MB)" the marketeers, who believe in base 10, say 160gb. The professionals, who believe in base 2, say its 152gb. Is there a third group who believes its 163gb? I really need to take out the drive and see what the numbers really are! /gat It also appears that one can create a file > 2gig on an intel system. which is interesting. Its also interesting that 'cat' gets a seg fault at 32gig. its also interesting that write() will fail at a 2 gig boundary. lotsa interesting things, which were of mo interest to me for some time, as i was for a long time on a 64bit machine where such limitations did not happen. as for me, i dont support the private group that creates midi/sound device drivers for linux . They charge for their drivers. They also seem to have signed exclusive disclosure arrangements with the manufacturers, which prevents people like me from gaining the necessary infoormation about their device(s). Out of that comes a public group that does the same thing, but under a more 'linux' orientation. But this is politics, and generally outside of my political peripheral vision, by which i dont see too clearly the NDA agreements between XFREE & various video card manufacturers. BTW, minor point - the 20269 is not listed on the make config of the kernel build. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GAT, > > Device: Maxtor 4G160H8 Serial Number: G802RYZE > LBA 0 DMA Read Test = 53.74 MB/Sec (4.65 Seconds) > Outer Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 34.73 MB/Sec (7.20 Seconds) > Inner Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 17.82 MB/Sec (14.03 Seconds) > > Corrected rates for under reporting: > > LBA 0 DMA Read Test = 72.55 MB/Sec > Outer Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 46.89 MB/Sec > Inner Diameter Sequential DMA Read Test = 24.06 MB/Sec > > And yes I am the sole creator of ATA in Linux, had it not been for me, > the subsystem would not be the success it is today. > > And if something were to happen to me, there are a few trusted souls that > have access to the goods. So do not think that all is lost. > > 63 == 64 if 0 == 1 > 255 == 256 if 0 == 1 > > You forget that zero is a counting number. > > Cheers, > > Andre Hedrick > The Linux ATA/IDE guy > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Uncle George wrote: > > > reading from the web site one gets to understand ( albeit erroneously ) > > that the major ide disk folks are supporting the open src of the tech > > specs to their hardware. > > In reality, it is linux-ide et al that is supporting the disk > > manufactures in their quest to sell their products. I would have thought > > that 'support' would have been the manufactures release of the necessary > > info to build the software ( by anyone in the world ). After all, if u > > were to disappear either volentarily, or involentarily, there willo be > > no one else that will have the docs to continue on. Oh well. > > > > There seem to be some mathematical inconsistencies in the kernel > > recognoition of the 160gig maxtor drive > > > > Nov 7 18:43:36 kodak kernel: hde: 320173056 sectors (163929 MB) > > w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=317632/255/63, UDMA(133) > > > > The cardboard box says 160mb ( decimal ) but in reality it is somewhere > > near 152gb ( base 2 ). Which also appears to match the 'internal drive > > label' as seen by their bios at boottime. > > > > mke2fs works, but has strange numbers. > > > > speed is about 33mb/sec, not exactly near 133mb/sec > > > > later i will take out the drive to read off the real numbers. as the > > drive specs are not in the PDF file! and see if the cchhss match in any > > fashion > > /gat > > > > BTW i'm also surious as to why 63, and not 64 sectors/trk or ( 256 > > tracks/cyl ) is block 0, or track 0 non-existant ? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > GAT, > > > > > > I do not understand the question? > > > I am now self employed and I support this project so I am seeking funds > > > to offset development costs. > > > > > > I do not publish the Documents I have obtained to develop code. > > > Those are aquired under various NDA's. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Andre Hedrick > > > The Linux ATA/IDE guy > > > > > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Uncle George wrote: > > > > > > > AND where is the tech programming specs by the organizations that > > > > support linux ? > > > > /gat > > > > > > > > should that not be kept somewhere locally ? > > > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hey GAT, > > > > > > > > > > Other Web site. > > > > > > > > > > http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/ > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > > Andre Hedrick > > > > > The Linux ATA/IDE guy > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Uncle George wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > in kernel 2.4.14 there is support of the pdc20268(?), but not the > > > > > > pdc20269. Nor does there seem to be support for PIO mode 6 ( did i miss > > > > > > a number while java'ng ? ) > > > > > > html pages says that there is. > > > > > > > > > > > > There does not seem to be any linux support from promise for this kard ( > > > > > > as stated on their web site ), and certainly not in text, src, or > > > > > > document format. There also does not seem to be any tech docs on this > > > > > > this ( linux-ide.org ) site. > > > > > > /gat > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
