On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> Axalon wrote:
> >
> > put it into single user and use hdparm -tT /dev/hda to test your settings
> > when you find the fastest, Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, search for hdparm,
> > you'll need to tweak that line.
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.19
> > > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> > > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> > > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, ATA DISK drive
> > > hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, 8063MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
> > > hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> > > Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
>
>
> Now a question comes to mind: I know that Mandrake 6.0 has the Uniform
> IDE driver (it says so in the log) but as distributed, does the kernel
> have the VIA chipset support (VT82C586B) __activated__ ???
> I am asking this because in the current thread, it doesn't seem that
> his HD is recognized as an UDMA one ... whereas on my MB (also VIA
> chipset)
> it says hda: IBM HDEA .... , UDMA(33) which shows that the HD is
> recognized for UDMA.
> What I don't remember is, was it the case _before_ I recompiled my
> kernel,
> i.e. with the Mandrake kernel _as distributed_ ???
>
>
> With VIA chipsets (at least) you also get messages in the log telling
> about success (or not) of (U)DMA timings, so as these messages don't
> show in his log, I wonder whether the VIA driver is activated ???
>
>
> --
> Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 74 Annemasse France
> old Linux fan
>
Yes it gets activated, the specific code for the VT82C586B is only 86
lines counting comments, it just resets two settings (prefetch/fifo)
to a more optimum setting.
