Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
fixed? Send a patch and lets try it Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax

Re: reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage

2001-02-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
he body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-35

Re: sync & asyck i/o

2001-02-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
he allowable range and it does not get to diskOOPS! I suspect that with all of the new NVRAM HOSTS coming to market soon we will see more fs death in the future until things settle. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > > > The aio functions should NOT use READA/WRITEA. They should just use the > > > normal operations, waiting for requests. > > > > But then you end with lots of threads blocking in get_request()

Re: sync & asyck i/o

2001-02-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
t them to enable write-back caching. > Linux assumes that the WCE (write cache enable) bit in a disk's > caching mode page is zero. Stephen, You can not be so blind to omit the command. You have to issue an active command to disable WCE. All modern drives come with it defaulted enabled, esp

Re: sync asyck i/o

2001-02-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
in a disk's caching mode page is zero. Stephen, You can not be so blind to omit the command. You have to issue an active command to disable WCE. All modern drives come with it defaulted enabled, especially ATA disks. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: The aio functions should NOT use READA/WRITEA. They should just use the normal operations, waiting for requests. But then you end with lots of threads blocking in get_request() So? What

Re: sync asyck i/o

2001-02-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
and it does not get to diskOOPS! I suspect that with all of the new NVRAM HOSTS coming to market soon we will see more fs death in the future until things settle. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn'twork)

2001-02-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
entries to change the IDE driver speed with a simple: > > echo current_speed:4 > /proc/ide/hdc/settings You can not it has nothing to do with the speed of the device but the transfer rate between the host and the device. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Deve

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn'twork)

2001-02-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
ull speed? > > /proc/ide/hdX/settings ? The (current,init)_speed settings there? > > Give it a try at least ;-) That is the ATA transfer rate between the device and the host only. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn'twork)

2001-02-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
/settings ? The (current,init)_speed settings there? Give it a try at least ;-) That is the ATA transfer rate between the device and the host only. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development - ASL, Inc

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn'twork)

2001-02-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
driver speed with a simple: echo current_speed:4 /proc/ide/hdc/settings You can not it has nothing to do with the speed of the device but the transfer rate between the host and the device. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

RE: IDE timeouts 2.4.1

2001-02-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
iveReady > SeekComplete DataRequest } > Jan 31 00:34:46 kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > Jan 31 00:34:46 kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func > only: 14 > Jan 31 00:34:46 kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Dat

Re: [Patch] DVD bugfix in ide-cd.c

2001-02-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > Thanks applied, guess we need another work-around for buggy changers... > > -- > Jens Axboe To quote my friend, about comments agreeing with Hale Landis. WHY!!! are you still supporting junk? ;-) Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Dev

Re: [Patch] DVD bugfix in ide-cd.c

2001-02-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: Thanks applied, guess we need another work-around for buggy changers... -- Jens Axboe To quote my friend, about comments agreeing with Hale Landis. WHY!!! are you still supporting junk? ;-) Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel

RE: IDE timeouts 2.4.1

2001-02-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
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re: dual athlon

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Hi Dan, I guess that cat is out of the bag. So I will let the other one out now.. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/31/2156234 > > Does this jive with your tests? > > -Dan > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Deve

Re: 2.4.x/alpha/ALI chipset/IDE problems summary Re: 2.4.1 not fullysane on Alpha - file systems

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
8:05, i.e. SCSI driver (/dev/sda5 to be > > more precise). When my compiler went bonkers and started to read > > clearly some random stuff instead of sources then the whole action was > > happening on a SCSI drive. > > > > Michal > > - > > To unsubscrib

Re: ide hotplug and 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: > > > > > Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling > > > of the 2nd channel for bo

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
rives (RAID1 is easier for the human > to deal with). It doesn't but I got out of the geometry business two+ years ago... Andries (Mr. FDisk) Brouwer is the man.. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
t; Regards, > Tom > > -- > The Daemons lurk and are dumb. -- Emerson > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
is easier for the human to deal with). It doesn't but I got out of the geometry business two+ years ago... Andries (Mr. FDisk) Brouwer is the man.. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling of the 2nd channel for boards which have an on-board FastTrak? FastTrak == Ultra

Re: ide hotplug and 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
"unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.x/alpha/ALI chipset/IDE problems summary Re: 2.4.1 not fullysane on Alpha - file systems

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
lease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

re: dual athlon

2001-02-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Hi Dan, I guess that cat is out of the bag. So I will let the other one out now.. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/31/2156234 Does this jive with your tests? -Dan Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay.. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: > > > Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, > > > which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for tr

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
t linux has a policy of not policies. Maybe a compile option could help... Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
On 31 Jan 2001, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But there is no indication of what the problems could be, > > > or what he thinks the geometry should be (and why). > > > I see nothing very wrong in

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: > Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling > of the 2nd channel for boards which have an on-board FastTrak? FastTrak == Ultra - Fake-RAID Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
uff the same. Cheers, > Andries > > > [Don't forget: (i) geometry does not exist (ii) hdparm is just > some user program.] > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
255/63, sectors = 150136560, start = 0 > > [root@nngds1 /root]# hdparm /dev/hde > > /dev/hde: > multcount= 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0 (off)

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
) geometry does not exist (ii) hdparm is just some user program.] Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: Talking of the Promise are there any plans to support re-enabling of the 2nd channel for boards which have an on-board FastTrak? FastTrak == Ultra - Fake-RAID Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
On 31 Jan 2001, Rupa Schomaker wrote: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But there is no indication of what the problems could be, or what he thinks the geometry should be (and why). I see nothing very wrong in the posted data. We agree Andries, but the enduser wants

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
es. Maybe a compile option could help... Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay.. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation info on ALL drives

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
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Re: [PATCH] No VIA IDE DMA unless configured

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
G_IDEDMA_AUTO > in the code below? No 'CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO' is a global config option across all platforms. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IBM encryption chip support?

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > Will this chip need any kernel support or > will it just need to be supported in usermode? > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2680013,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest It looks like CPRM on the mainboard. Andre Hedri

Re: IBM encryption chip support?

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Miles Lane wrote: Will this chip need any kernel support or will it just need to be supported in usermode? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2680013,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest It looks like CPRM on the mainboard. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

Re: [PATCH] No VIA IDE DMA unless configured

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
? No 'CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO' is a global config option across all platforms. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
p://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
ad the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: PDC20265, disk corruption and NMI watchdog...

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
00 promise? > Should I rejumper my removable HDD to be master, and not slave? > Thanks, > Petr Vandrovec > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - > To unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
like it's the bulk write that's the problem. Peter, did the scratch-test series pass or fail? Did it report any bit failures on the check? Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
the problem. Peter, did the scratch-test series pass or fail? Did it report any bit failures on the check? Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the F

Re: PDC20265, disk corruption and NMI watchdog...

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
canoes in the winter. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, paradox3 wrote: > I have an SMP machine (dual PII 400s) running 2.2.16 with one 10,000 RPM IBM > 10 GB SCSI drive > (AIC 7890 on motherboard, using aic7xxx.o), and four various IDE drives. The > SCSI driv

SMP Athlon...(a quiet question)

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
ER, they work but must compile as PII/Celeron :-( A bunch of memcpy header stuff fails to compile current is one of the left overs in some cases. I will dive deeper in monday, just wanting some feed back first. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
this helps. > > derek > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > I've been getting this during the boot sequence for quite some time now. > > > They don't seem to impact the functionality of the drive any though. Just > > > another extra-v

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
borted next > [...] > hdd: ATAPI 12X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache, DMA > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > > -Jacob > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 -Jacob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA D

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: I've been getting this during the boot sequence for quite some time now. They don't seem to impact the functionality of the drive any though. Just another extra-verbose kernel message I should ignore

Re: kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
just boot up with linux root=blah and you'll be up and running! Hope this helps. derek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick

SMP Athlon...(a quiet question)

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
ER, they work but must compile as PII/Celeron :-( A bunch of memcpy header stuff fails to compile current is one of the left overs in some cases. I will dive deeper in monday, just wanting some feed back first. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
canoes in the winter. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, paradox3 wrote: I have an SMP machine (dual PII 400s) running 2.2.16 with one 10,000 RPM IBM 10 GB SCSI drive (AIC 7890 on motherboard, using aic7xxx.o), and four various IDE drives. The SCSI drive performs

SERVERWORKS (READ ME) please....

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
LMKL, I have a meeting in the morning with their CTO. I want a core dump of every issue that needs to be address in Linux to put in his hand. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
eah I'm pissed, but at the situation > not at the kernel or anyone involved with the VIA stuff. Please don't take > it that way.) > > David Downey > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a messag

Re: [preview] Latest AMD VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
take it that way.) David Downey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

SERVERWORKS (READ ME) please....

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
LMKL, I have a meeting in the morning with their CTO. I want a core dump of every issue that needs to be address in Linux to put in his hand. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
pile (Adam Richter) > > o M68K/PPC makefile fixes (Geert > > Uytterhoeven) > > o Work around a funny in the Solaris NFS client (Neil Brown) > > o Fix building of network modules (Peter > > Samuelson) &

Re: when is overriding idebus safe?

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
--- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: when is overriding idebus safe?

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
bus=XX primary use was for VLB/ISA/EISA systems, but I have been wrong before. Chers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:04:50AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here, > > > unless everyone out there ran their chipsets at 33 MHz, in which case the

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Vojtech, I worry that the dynamic timing that you are calculating could > > bite you. > > Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really hel

Re: [preview] Latest AMD VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Vojtech, I worry that the dynamic timing that you are calculating could bite you. Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here, unles everyone out

Re: [preview] Latest AMD VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:04:50AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here, unless everyone out there ran their chipsets at 33 MHz, in which case the You have to run the ATA

Re: when is overriding idebus safe?

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
was for VLB/ISA/EISA systems, but I have been wrong before. Chers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: when is overriding idebus safe?

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
"unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
build error (Hans Grobler) o Fix incorrect preprocessor use in umsdos(Andreas Franck) o DRM makefile fix(Keith Owens) o IDE 2.4.0-prerelease*1231.patch (Andre Hedrick) o Fixes for CVS gcc and semaphores

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
Apologies first... Would someone send me a way to filter mail? I REALLY DO NOT GIVE A RATS ARSE ABOUT THIS OT!! Like it or Leave it but whinning about it SUX! Regard, Cheif Whinner! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
UDMA mode (2) seems to be identical to before. Also, if your drive is caught in the question state of where the standard changes, the validity bits for determining the host/drive detection pair for the presense willl be fuzzy as is my explaination. > > > Andre Hedrick

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
15 motherboard, and the HDD is Ultra-ATA. ER, were you getting UDMA-100-66 out of 2.2.18 stock? Now what are you getting in 2.4.0? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
big request you get slapped hard. The point may be that if we have some extra cycles spinning, why not use them to a painful task when it will not hurt as much? Just my nickel on the issue. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
ou have now lost your interrupt parser in the driver :-( > hde:hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } No one is to every override the driver on setting up the IO base. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
hde:hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } No one is to every override the driver on setting up the IO base. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
. The point may be that if we have some extra cycles spinning, why not use them to a painful task when it will not hurt as much? Just my nickel on the issue. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
-ATA. ER, were you getting UDMA-100-66 out of 2.2.18 stock? Now what are you getting in 2.4.0? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-23 Thread Andre Hedrick
of where the standard changes, the validity bits for determining the host/drive detection pair for the presense willl be fuzzy as is my explaination. Andre Hedrick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Florin Andrei wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: The REAL problem was in disk performance. The apm

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-21 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:42:41PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote

Re: [preview] Latest AMD VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-21 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:42:41PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: chipset ---\ | \-IDC

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > Regardless if we rip out the entire rule of majors for dev_t, will there > > be a service dummy driver to various block-devices? There is a real need > > for t

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > > No, I think I understood perfectly well. I said that if it's going to be > > > bound to each block device subsystem it would make more sense to > > > establish that tie explici

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > > > > HPA, > > > > > > > > Thoughts on granting all b

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > HPA, > > > > Thoughts on granting all block subsystems a general access misc-char minor > > to do special service access that can not be down to a given device if it > > is open

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
> > >> > > >> Just to be clear - I am NOT getting any errors when I switch back to > > >> the 2.2.17 kernel (debian standard) - with a 2.4.0 kernel they occur > > >> every few minutes when there is significant disk activity. > > > > >

Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
and force the migration to find the desired major/minor is painful. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
and force the migration to find the desired major/minor is painful. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: HPA, Thoughts on granting all block subsystems a general access misc-char minor to do special service access that can not be down to a given device if it is open. There are some things you can not do to a device

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: HPA, Thoughts on granting all block subsystems a general access misc-char minor to do special service access that can not be down

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: No, I think I understood perfectly well. I said that if it's going to be bound to each block device subsystem it would make more sense to establish that tie explicitly -- if that isn't possible I'm a bit confused

Re: Minors remaining in Major 10 ??

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: Hi Peter, Regardless if we rip out the entire rule of majors for dev_t, will there be a service dummy driver to various block-devices? There is a real need for this if we are going to get full control of the hardware

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
.com > > > I do not know of _any_ disk controllers that let you map the controller > > buffers over PCI. Which means that with current hardware, you have to > > assume that the disk is the initiator of the PCI-PCI DMA requests. Agreed? Err, first-party DMA devices do this, I thi

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
that let you map the controller buffers over PCI. Which means that with current hardware, you have to assume that the disk is the initiator of the PCI-PCI DMA requests. Agreed? Err, first-party DMA devices do this, I think. I do have some of these on the radar map. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

RE: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset (fwd)

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
is now the key now that Revolution is established. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:44:00 -0800 From: Kim To: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: RE: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset (fwd) Andr

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
bvious, they they sell CPU's fpr $100's and sell chipsets at pennies. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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