On Thursday 13 October 2005 23:53, Phil Strong wrote: > Yeah I'll have to check but it may be 2.6.13.2 <http://2.6.13.2> if that is > the newest. Yes perhaps my Mobo is emulating as an ide because it shows in > the bios as ide channel 2. Has turned off the bios feature before? I am not > sure which it will be but what files will I need to configure? grub.conf > and fstab? Can I do this before I disable so when I reboot it is happy? > That way I can just keep an older kernel if in fact it doesn't work and > boot that and restore the correct files until I can figure a work around. > > -Phil > > On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:58, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > I ran this on kernel 2.6.13.2 <http://2.6.13.2>. So I'm not so sure > > > it's > > > > a kernel issue. > > > > > Kirk > > > > > > Steve Adeff wrote: > > > > On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:13, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > >>I've used hdparm -Tt on all sorts of non-IDE devices: flash-memory > > > >> drives, Raid devices, RAM drives. It's never been a problem. > > > >> > > > >>Kirk > > > >> > > > >>Steve Adeff wrote: > > > >>>On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:50, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > >>>>Here's the output on my SATA drive: > > > >>>> > > > >>>># hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > > > >>>> > > > >>>>/dev/sda: > > > >>>> Timing cached reads: 3832 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1915.88 MB/sec > > > >>>>HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: > > > >>>> Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 184 MB > > > >>>> in 3.02 seconds > > > > = > > > > > >>>>60.84 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: > > > >>>>Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > >>>> > > > >>>>So it fails on some sort of IO command but still runs the > > > >>>> benchmark. > > > >>>> > > > >>>>Kirk > > > >>> > > > >>>those IO errors are normal as hdparm is designed for IDE while the > > > > SATA > > > > > >>>drivers treat SATA as a SCSI device. from your numbers though, DMA > > > >>> is definitely on. > > > >>> > > > >>>Steve > > > > > > > > Well, yes, but the older SATA drivers didn't have a complete command > > > > set. > > > > > > I used to get the same error on my SATA drives but with the > > > > 2.6.13kernel i don't. Nothing to worry about though, and as I said, > > > > "DMA" is definitely on (not that SATA does the whole DMA thing like > > > > PATA does). > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > quite strange, don't know what to say, so I'll bow out of this thread... > > > > -- > > Steve
the bios will show it as IDE, its just the linux drivers that treat it as SCSI. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
