Re: ATA 100

2001-04-19 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:46:03PM +0200, David Balazic wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:21:53PM -0400, Manuel Ignacio Monge Garcia wrote: > > > > > El Mié 18 Abr 2001 15:16, escribiste: > > > > I don't know about other possible problems wit

Re: ATA 100

2001-04-19 Thread David Balazic
nel is 2.4.3-ac9. > Some settings: According to your dmesg output , hde is working in UDMA/100. Since hde is the only device on your ATA/100 ( the PDC20265 ) controller , I don't see any problem. Are the transfer rates not good ? Whet is the output of hdparm -ti /dev/hde ? -- Da

Re: ATA 100

2001-04-19 Thread David Balazic
Vojtech Pavlik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:21:53PM -0400, Manuel Ignacio Monge Garcia wrote: > > > El Mié 18 Abr 2001 15:16, escribiste: > > > I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must > > > use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

2001-04-18 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:21:53PM -0400, Manuel Ignacio Monge Garcia wrote: > El Mié 18 Abr 2001 15:16, escribiste: > > I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must > > use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to work. > > > > > ---Primary IDE--

Re: ATA 100

2001-04-18 Thread Nicholas Petreley
Duh, mea stupida. I misread your message. You're trying to get the Promise IDE working at 100, no? My Asus A7V133 has the 686b which does ATA100 without having to rely on the Promise chipset, and that seems to work fine. But if it helps to know, I've got an A7V with the 686a and I use the P

Re: ATA 100

2001-04-18 Thread Nicholas Petreley
I have the same motherboard, and it works fine for me. Note the 80w cable detection. Perhaps you've got a bad cable? -Nick --VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration Driver Version: 3.23 South Bridge: VIA vt82c686b Revision:

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:16:48PM -0500, Moses Mcknight wrote: > I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must > use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to work. > > > ---Primary IDE---Secondary IDE-- > > Cable Type: 40w

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

2001-04-18 Thread Manuel Ignacio Monge Garcia
El Mié 18 Abr 2001 15:16, escribiste: > I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must > use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to work. > > > ---Primary IDE---Secondary IDE-- > > Cable Type: 40w 40w

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

2001-04-18 Thread Moses Mcknight
I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to work. > ---Primary IDE---Secondary IDE-- > Cable Type: 40w 40w - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

2001-04-18 Thread Manuel Ignacio Monge Garcia
Hi. I have a ASUS A7V133 Motherboard with AMD ThinderBird 1 Ghz, and PDC20265/VIA. I've tried all the possible combinations on "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices". I've read the "Unofficial Asus A7V and Linux ATA100 "Quasi-Mini-Howto" on http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/. But I still

Re: PROBLEM: Slowdown for ATA/100 drive on PCI card, after 2.4.3upgrade.

2001-04-17 Thread Bobby D. Bryant
ed since I have a new mobo unopened in a box that I can > still return and choose something with another chipset. Notice that with 2.4.3 it *only* affects the disk on the PCI controller card; a similar ATA/100 disk on the motherboard's controller did not experience the slowdown. Also, FYI,

Re: PROBLEM: Slowdown for ATA/100 drive on PCI card, after 2.4.3upgrade.

2001-04-17 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > try and avoid a hardware problem. VIA have finally released an 'official' > fix which seems to be a lot less damaging to performance on the whole. That > I hope will be in 2.4.4 What is this official fix? I've only seen unofficial ones (like the one in your

Re: PROBLEM: Slowdown for ATA/100 drive on PCI card, after 2.4.3 upgrade.

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
> [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > ATA/100 drive on PCI ATA/100 controller was very fast under 2.4.0 and > 2.4.2, but becomes *very* slow under 2.4.3 Known problem with the VIA cipset setups. We turn a lot of features off to try and avoid a hardware problem. VIA have fina

PROBLEM: Slowdown for ATA/100 drive on PCI card, after 2.4.3 upgrade.

2001-04-16 Thread Bobby D. Bryant
[1.] One line summary of the problem: ATA/100 drive on PCI ATA/100 controller was very fast under 2.4.0 and 2.4.2, but becomes *very* slow under 2.4.3 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have an ATA/100 controller card in a PCI slot, and an ATA/100 drive hanging off it. Under

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac5 IDE Software Raid(ata/100) Problem..Kernel Oops?

2001-03-02 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday March 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Problem description > 2. Machine details > a) Hardware > b) Software > 3. System log during the incident > > 1. Problem Description: > snip > Mar 2 13:44:38 bertha kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual

Linux 2.4.2-ac5 IDE Software Raid(ata/100) Problem..Kernel Oops?

2001-03-02 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
MB RAM Onboard IDE : 2 IDE Ports ata/33 (UNUSED) : 2 UDMA ATA/100 ports Promise PDC20265) hda: 40188960 sectors (20577 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=39870/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: hdc: 150136560 sectors (76870 MB) w/1916KiB Cach

DMA blues... (Raid5 + Promise ATA/100)

2001-02-12 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
I have a software raid setup using the latest kernel, but the system keeps crashing. Each drive is connected to the respective ide port via ATA100 capable cables. Each drive is a master..no slaves. The configuration is that /dev/hdc is a hot spare and /dev/hd[e,g,i,k,m,o,q,s] are all setup

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > My setup looks like this, I boot from hde > > I configured my BIOS to boot from SCSI (I have no scsi-adapter but the > > promise card reports itself

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Stephen Torri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote: > My setup looks like this, I boot from hde > I configured my BIOS to boot from SCSI (I have no scsi-adapter but the > promise card reports itself as one at boottime) > > boot = /dev/hde3 > delay = 50 > m

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
ntroller (Intel 82371AB PIIX4). The setup was > > /dev/hda - ST310232A, FwRev=3.09 (Seagate) > /dev/hdb - 927308, FwRev=RA530JNO (Maxtor) * Linux installed here > /dev/hdc - CD-532E-B (Teach CDROM) > /dev/hdd - CD-RW4224A (Smart & Friendly CDRW). > > Well I got an Promi

Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Stephen Torri
agate) /dev/hdb - 927308, FwRev=RA530JNO (Maxtor) * Linux installed here /dev/hdc - CD-532E-B (Teach CDROM) /dev/hdd - CD-RW4224A (Smart & Friendly CDRW). Well I got an Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller card. Went over to linux-ide.org and get the patches for kernel-2.2.16. Took a pristine kern