Yes, this is important for some of us with the new ASUS P4B533 board. The disk IO is extremely slow in PIO mode. I know that Alan Cox has a patch for the standard 2.4.19 kernel, but I use the xfs file system. I doubt that xfs is supported by the standard kernel.
So, I am stuck with the mdk kernels. I certainly also hope that somebody at Mandrake is working on this problem. -- Bjarne Thomsen Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Aarhus On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:55, Eric Fernandez wrote: > There is still a problem with the i845G chipset and this new 2.4.19 > kernel, preventing hdparm to setup the UDMA5 mode for hard drive > (HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted). Moreover, there is an > error message at boot : > PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions > This issue has already been discussed on the kernel lists. A patch > exists by Andre Hedrick on : > http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/ > > I do not want to be rude, but this is the fourth time I report this > problem on this list, which is serious because it cripples the > performance of the hard drive. Not counting I reported it on > mandrakeexpert too. I was told this would be corrected in the beta 2, > and it is still in the RC1 (even if I reported it after each new beta > release), and I am afraid it will be also in the final version. > So either you do not want to correct it, and I hope this is not the > case, either there are technical reasons for that, but this is strange > because the Slackware 8 kernel has not that problem. But at least, if > really you consider your beta testers as useful, please give some > feedback to problems that cannot be solved. Sorry if this sounds rude, > but I really have the feeling nobody takes care about that and I begin > to be fed up giving some bug reports for nothing. > > Eric > >
