Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
Hello Daniel, * Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 15:22]: May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html thx, that helps a lot. Now I can trottle high volume copy operations. Best regards, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
Hi, I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX running. Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. lspci says: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2) I i try now to enable DMA transfer with: hdparm -d1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device So my first thought was, check kernel for the right driver. But nv_sata is selected (statically). I checked dmesg and found: nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250820NS Rev: 3.AE Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda I boot my system with grub and had the option from the installer doscsi in the boot params. Must I use a different driver for that sata controller? Thx a lot for help, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
Hi, On Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX running. Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. lspci says: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2) I i try now to enable DMA transfer with: hdparm -d1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. So my first thought was, check kernel for the right driver. But nv_sata is selected (statically). I checked dmesg and found: nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 as you can see, it uses udma/133 already. scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250820NS Rev: 3.AE Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda I boot my system with grub and had the option from the installer doscsi in the boot params. Must I use a different driver for that sata controller? No. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a problem. If I copy some data on disks the system is at a very high load and extremely slow (load at 2.5). If I record movies with VDR every recording is damaged (distortions). So I thought it is a problem of missing DMA. Is the SATA driver so bad and produces a such high CPU load? Best regards, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
On Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a problem. If I copy some data on disks the system is at a very high load and extremely slow (load at 2.5). If I record movies with VDR every recording is damaged (distortions). So I thought it is a problem of missing DMA. Is the SATA driver so bad and produces a such high CPU load? Dunno, I am recording fine and sata is fast (uli based board, jmicron controller). There is a lot of stuff that can go wrong. IO-scheduler (which one are you using), preemption (don't use forced preemption), ticks... The lower the latency, the lower the troughput, for example -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:37:28 +0200 Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a problem. If I copy some data on disks the system is at a very high load and extremely slow (load at 2.5). If I record movies with VDR every recording is damaged (distortions). So I thought it is a problem of missing DMA. Is the SATA driver so bad and produces a such high CPU load? Best regards, Matthias May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 08:22:23 am Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:37:28 +0200 May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html Daniel... the post you made wasn't directed tome, but I benefited from it greatly. Thanks for the info... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
