On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:57, Nicolas STURMEL wrote:
> Yuri Enshin wrote:
> > For intel SATA controller most MB's can be configured for
> > 'comaptibility' (not native) mode. In this mode, you can use one PATA
> > port and two SATA (as primary and slave), and this mode comaptible with
> > old drivers in kernel 2.4.x. On my comp (i865-based MB and Maxtor 120GB
> > SATA) livecd gentoo kernel (2.4.20) still unbootable, but I can boot
> > with smp kernel and install gentoo, and then switch to 2.6 kernel.
>
> Are you saying that you managed to use a serial ATA disk with the ICH5
> controller and a 2.6.0 kernel ?
> What options did you activate in the kernel config ?
> Could you also give a hdparm output to see what performances serial ATA
> can achieve ?
>
> Because, I am really interested with serial ATA but I have to be sure
> about serial ATA compatibility between my I865ep motherboard ( Abit
> IS7-E ) and the linux kernel.
I have no problems with 2.6 kernel and my Asus P4P800 + Maxtor SATA drive
There is a 3 attached files: kernel config for IDE, part of dmesg output
related to IDE and drives, and hdparm -iI and -tT output (for comparision,
also results of my old HDD - IBM AVER)
<*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
<*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
--- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
[ ] Use old disk-only driver on primary interface
<*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
[ ] Use multi-mode by default
[ ] Auto-Geometry Resizing support
<*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
< > Include IDE/ATAPI TAPE support (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support
<*> SCSI emulation support
[ ] IDE Taskfile Access
[*] IDE Taskfile IO (EXPERIMENTAL)
--- IDE chipset support/bugfixes
[ ] CMD640 chipset bugfix/support
[ ] PNP EIDE support
[*] PCI IDE chipset support
[*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support
[ ] Boot off-board chipsets first support
[ ] Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support
< > OPTi 82C621 chipset enhanced support (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support
[*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
[*] ATA tagged command queueing (EXPERIMENTAL)
[ ] TCQ on by default
(32) Default queue depth
[ ] Force enable legacy 2.0.X HOSTS to use DMA
[*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
[ ] Enable DMA only for disks
[ ] ATA Work(s) In Progress (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > AEC62XX chipset support
< > ALI M15x3 chipset support
< > AMD and nVidia IDE support
< > CMD64{3|6|8|9} chipset support
< > Compaq Triflex IDE support
< > CY82C693 chipset support
< > Cyrix CS5510/20 MediaGX chipset support (VERY EXPERIMENTAL)
< > Cyrix/National Semiconductor CS5530 MediaGX chipset support
< > HPT34X chipset support
< > HPT36X/37X chipset support
< > National SCx200 chipset support
<*> Intel PIIXn chipsets support
< > NS87415 chipset support
< > PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67} support
< > PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support
< > ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5/CSB6 chipsets support
< > Silicon Image chipset support
< > SiS5513 chipset support
< > SLC90E66 chipset support
< > Tekram TRM290 chipset support
< > VIA82CXXX chipset support
[*] IGNORE word93 Validation BITS
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide0
Using anticipatory scheduling elevator
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
PM: Adding info for ide:0.0
hdc: YAMAHA CRW-F1E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide1
hdd: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 013, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
PM: Adding info for ide:1.0
PM: Adding info for ide:1.1
ICH5-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.2
ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2
ICH5-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 18
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xef60-0xef67, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xef68-0xef6f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hde: Maxtor 6Y120M0, ATA DISK drive
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide2
ide2 at 0xefe0-0xefe7,0xefae on irq 18
PM: Adding info for ide:2.0
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
hde: max request size: 128KiB
hde: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
~ # hdparm -iI /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Model=Maxtor 6Y120M0, FwRev=YAR51BW0, SerialNo=Y3JVJJQE
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7936kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=240121728
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
* signifies the current active mode
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: Maxtor 6Y120M0
Serial Number: Y3JVJJQE
Firmware Revision: YAR51BW0
Standards:
Supported: 7 6 5 4
Likely used: 7
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 240121728
device size with M = 1024*1024: 117246 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 122942 MBytes (122 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 1
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0000)
Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 192
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* NOP cmd
* READ BUFFER cmd
* WRITE BUFFER cmd
* Host Protected Area feature set
* Look-ahead
* Write cache
* Power Management feature set
Security Mode feature set
* SMART feature set
* FLUSH CACHE EXT command
* Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
SET MAX security extension
Advanced Power Management feature set
* DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
* SMART self-test
* SMART error logging
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
Checksum: correct
~ # hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 2536 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1266.93 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 114 MB in 3.01 seconds = 37.93 MB/sec
~ # hdparm -t /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 2520 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1259.56 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 168 MB in 3.03 seconds = 55.53 MB/sec
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