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

2001-01-25 Thread David D.W. Downey
LOL, I'm in Sunnyvale, CA right now. I work for Ensim.Com. OK, here is all the technical info on my box. Sorry it took so long to respond. Had a department meeting to attend. MSI 694D Pro running Dual FC-PGA PIII-733 CPUs with 1GB of Corsair RAM. HDD is a Western Digital WDC300BB-00AU1 ATA1

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

2001-01-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
Where the flip are you form this power starved portion of the world? Also the subject is AMD and VIA chipsets not AMD CPU's running on VIA chipsets. What chipset or host is causing you the problem? VIA pr Promise? On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > OK, I see you guys releas

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

2001-01-25 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:54:36PM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > OK, I see you guys releasing patches for the AMD + VIA problem, but this > problem is NOT just limited to the AMD problem. I'm using Intel PIII-733s > and the VIA VT82C686A chipset. No AMD CPUs in ANY of my VIA boxes. When

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

2001-01-25 Thread David D.W. Downey
OK, I see you guys releasing patches for the AMD + VIA problem, but this problem is NOT just limited to the AMD problem. I'm using Intel PIII-733s and the VIA VT82C686A chipset. No AMD CPUs in ANY of my VIA boxes. When are we going to see something for the MSI boards? My board in particular is

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

2001-01-25 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:58:09PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > In the past there were hardcoded timing values for the allowable for the > VIA cores that were defined by VIA. They were taken from their internal > lookup tables. You have stated that you have allowed for "slop" in the > timing t

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

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

2001-01-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
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 Chipset at 33MHz or it will fail in 99% of all > ca

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 o

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

2001-01-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > 1. Only a software guy would call it 'bounce'.. sounds funny ;-) > > Er...I help design some of the hardware and the rules, so I do more than > just software. So does 'echo' or 'reflections'sound better than 'bounce'? Yes. (I wasn't cracking on

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

2001-01-21 Thread Dan Hopper
In another dimension, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> remarked: > > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:42:41PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > 1. Only a software guy would call it 'bounce'.. sounds funny ;-) > > Er...I help design some of the hardware and the rules, so I do more than > just soft

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 ---\ > > > > | > > > >

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

2001-01-21 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
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-header > > > > > > chipset ---+ > > >

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

2001-01-21 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:46:06AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Ok, the VIA driver from clean 2.2.18 does nothing. It doesn't even use > hardcoded timings. It doesn't touch any timing tables. It just blindly > enables prefetch and writeback in the chips. The thing works because it > relies on BI

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

2001-01-21 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:51:12AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:18:34 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > > > >that's not the topic: Andre's talking about pci-clock-based timing > >constants the the driver programs into the ide controller - a matter > >of an extra few/more nanoseco

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

2001-01-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:18:34 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >that's not the topic: Andre's talking about pci-clock-based timing >constants the the driver programs into the ide controller - a matter >of an extra few/more nanoseconds. I know, but when looking hard for a problem in one place and not find

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

2001-01-21 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
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 there ran their chipsets at 33 MHz, in which case the c

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

2001-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:57:07 -0800 (PST), Andre Hedrick wrote: ... > >Vojtech, I worry that the dynamic timing that you are calculating could >bite you. Timings are exact especially at modes 3/4/5 the margins go to >an effective zero for varition or wiggle room. The state diagrams from >Quantum

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

2001-01-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:45:10PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:51:03 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > > > >On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > > >> I'm running with an Abit K7 (uses via82c686a in southbridge) with I

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

2001-01-20 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:45:10PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:51:03 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > >On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > >> I'm running with an Abit K7 (uses via82c686a in southbridge) with IBM > >> deskstar 8.4gb disks (DHEA-38451) as masters in

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

2001-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:51:03 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> I'm running with an Abit K7 (uses via82c686a in southbridge) with IBM >> deskstar 8.4gb disks (DHEA-38451) as masters in ide0 and 1. They only >> do UDMA mode 2. I am not overclocking or anything

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

2001-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
on Fri Jan 19 2001 - 10:56:10 EST Vojtech Pavlik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > ... >I'm sending you (and others who might be interested) my latest VIA and >IDE drivers. The VIA driver (v3.15) should have a complete support for >UDMA100 on the vt82c686b chip, the AMD driver (v1.5) should have full

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

2001-01-19 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi Andre! I'm sending you (and others who might be interested) my latest VIA and IDE drivers. The VIA driver (v3.15) should have a complete support for UDMA100 on the vt82c686b chip, the AMD driver (v1.5) should have full UDMA100 support on the amd766 ViperPlus chip. They're also a little more f