Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have a Promise Ultra 66 card setup (in lilo) as ide0
> > and ide1; plus the mobo (PPro) controler as ide2 and
> > ide3.
> >
> > I have this working with full ATA66 support and speed,
> > but the only kernel that works for me now is the
> > 2.2.16 (from cooker of course) ... anything else, from
> > 2.2.17 to 2.4.whatever hangs during the partition
> > check at boot time, after the following error:
> >
> > hdc:hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60
> > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> >
> > I have been complaining about this for a few months,
> > but apparently this is not a Mandrake specific
> > problem, but a kernel one ... but I am not certain,
> > since I haven't tried a plain vanilla kernel or a
> > package from another distro ...
>
> i would be happy to hear some tests feedback from you (of course only if
> you've time to test, bandwith to download, and a UDMA66 machine that is not
> a production one :-) )
>
> could you test kernel-2.2.17-0.18mdk.i586.rpm and hackkernel-2.4.0-0.13mdk.i586.rpm ?
> if it doesn't work, could try boot with "ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune" ??
>
> i'll be offline next week (and half the next one too) so cc: your reports
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (internal mdk ml)
>
> thanks.
Well, I had a chance to try the new (or yesterday's new, he, he) kernel packages, and I
have good and bad news:
kernel-2.2.17-0.21mdk - Did not work. Same problem, hang during partition check.
hackkernel-2.4.0-0.14mdk - This one did work!! But apparently there is a little bit
more
overhead, since a two disk (both are UDMA33; the UDMA66 drive measured ~15 - 17 MB/s)
stripe measured with hdparm gave me ~17.5 - 18.5 MB/s, while 2.2.16 gave me 19.3 - 19.8
MB/s
I was going to keep working with hackkernel, but there seems to be a bug that prevents
the ppp daemon to add the default route; so for convenience I had to go back to 2.2.16
...
--
Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
