Hi, Glenn, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 19:18 you wrote to amanda-users:
GE> And I thought that a & b were controller #1, c & d were #2. I'm using GE> the controller(s) on the Intel motherboard. Don't mix up controllers with channels: Your controller supports two channels, which are called primary and secondary channels. Each channel supports one master and one slave device. So the first IDE-controller controls hda - hdd second controller: hde - hdh ... Just found this: cat /proc/ide/piix (piix only valid for piix-chipset here, look what you have got there ...) gives you infos ... this is kernel-info, straight from the heart of your system ;-) the /proc/ide tree gives you loads of valuable infos (all the /proc does, BTW ...) >> This is good so far, but you should also enable bus-mastering for you >> controller. GE> I googled for IDE bus-mastering. It looks like plain old DMA. Is that GE> all it is? If so, that's done (there's still the 80 core cable issue, GE> but I know about it). >> If you REALLY want to get the best IDE-performance, don't use any >> slave-drives. Put in a second IDE-controller (25 bucks maybe) and let >> the faster controller control the disk drives as master drives. GE> I'll pick up a board when I go out to get the cable. Thanks. Maybe detect first if your system works fine. Which 2.6.x-Kernel is it? (You can contact me off-list as this is getting VERY offtopic ...) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
