On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:45:17AM +0530, Ashwin D wrote:
>On Thursday 12 April 2001 06:36, you wrote:
>
>> debian:/proc/ide/ide0/hda# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings
>> name value min max
>> mode
>> ---- ----- --- ---
>
>> current_speed *0* 0 69 rw
>
>> init_speed *0* 0 69 rw
>
>> multcount 0 0 16 rw
>
>
>There - UDMA is at 0 - mine reads 68 ie udma4. You may try -X68 to see if it
>makes a difference to these stats and to hdparm -t. No need to stick to it
>forever if u dont want the risk - just try it.
Though the current speed / init_speed value is 0, hdparm -i /dev/hda shows
udma4 :-) Still will check out tonight what u have suggested.
>
>multcount also contributes a few minor b/s = -m16 is also a good try.
I had tried this too.
>
>To confirm that UDMA is running you can run cat /proc/ide/piix which gives u
>the udma status.
OK.
>
>PS: I would also look at menuconfig and see if all the dma sections are
>turned on - mine is (although u should really be looking at Kingsly's ;) :
I will compare your settings with mine. If John can also post his kernel
settings than it would be useful to check out. John ........
>#
># IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
>#
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
># CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
># CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
Regards
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