On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 05:26, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Hia again folks, > > a last one :) Seems I not able to pass the udma-2 level for my > harddrives. Anyone has a clue as to why the Nforce-IDE port does not > allow more than that ? Or - has it to do with the new IDE-Drivers that > got into 2.4.2x ? (Well, the IDE-Driver cleanups that took place - Thx > Alan ) ... > > Here the relevant dmesg-output part: > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0 > NFORCE2: chipset revision 162 > NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hda: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive > hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive > blk: queue c03e4420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > blk: queue c03e455c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > hdc: ASUS DVD-ROM E608, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4824A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: host protected area => 1 > hda: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3737/255/63, UDMA(33) > hdb: host protected area => 1 > hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(33) > > > Trying to set these through hdparm etc. fails, e.g. it stays at UDMA 2. > Note - drive 2 is also a IBM Drive - OEM drive - which is not marked as > real IBM, or I got a Clone ;) > > > Here my Hardware: > - Asus A7N8X Delux (Using the 3com Network Port, and Onboard Sound + > USB, Firewire drivers loaded though) > - 2x256MBytes Ram > - 1x30GB+1x40GByte E-IDE Harddrives, running in UDMA-2 mode (Don't know > if enable idebus=66 is safe. Havn tried it yet). > - 1 Geforce 3 Ti500 (Hercules) with 64MBytes Ram - using the DVI Port. > - 1 Eizo L465TFT Black screen (*A beauty :)*) > > > Thx for any hints & Cheers > > Joerg
This is addressed in the new kernel Thomas is talking about too. I think you're going to be Thomas's new best friend after Sunday *grin*. James
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