On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately, since I don't have a patched kernel, I can't enable DMA
> access for my drives, as I am using an Ali M15x3 chipset. I get these
> results without tweaking (a bit off since I have about 20 netscape
> windows open)
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.27 seconds =56.39 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 10.37 seconds = 6.17 MB/sec
>
> I really want to be able to enable UDMA, because in Mandrake 6.0, with
> only enabling UDMA, I was getting about 13-14 MB/sec, which sped it up a
> bit.
> Is there a patched kernel available to download for 6.1, or do I have to
> get the sources and the patch (or kernel 2.3.x)?
Not yet there isn't, I did see a new ide patch from Andrea last week for
2.2. And the 2.3 patch is getting quite small. I've not tested either one
(don't have a problem cdrom, so's it's not much good for me to test)
