[FIXED] Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-11 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > have the rules for testing if the driver/host/device register and report > > > that all signals are valid and stable. > > > > Yes, I had some "interesting" modifications to a lot of my /usr when I > > tried to activate UDMA4 under RH7.0 (I don't

[FIXED] Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-11 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: have the rules for testing if the driver/host/device register and report that all signals are valid and stable. Yes, I had some "interesting" modifications to a lot of my /usr when I tried to activate UDMA4 under RH7.0 (I don't believe my

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Ted Gervais
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Alan... The following errors are what I am getting with your pre-2.2.18pre15 release. Does this mean anything. It only concerns ONE of my two physical drives. I can take it out but it works fine with 2.2.17 ?? > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: > ... > # IDE patch provides UDMA66 support, but is known to corrupt filesystems > # on a few systems, so is not applied by default. > Patch151: linux-2.2.16-ide-2805.patch > ... > # Dangerous IDE patch available but off by default > #%patch151 -p1 >

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > The 2.2 kernel we ship doesnt have the ide patches either so Im not suprised > it got upset 8) Ah yes you're correct. I saw the patch in the kernel SRPM but didn't look far enough to see: ... # IDE patch provides UDMA66 support, but is known to corrupt

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > Bad CRC is a cable error. That could be misconfiguration but could also be > crap cables It went away when I enabled PIIX4

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> > have the rules for testing if the driver/host/device register and report > > that all signals are valid and stable. > > Yes, I had some "interesting" modifications to a lot of my /usr when I > tried to activate UDMA4 under RH7.0 (I don't believe my hardware is > capable of UDMA4!) The 2.2

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the > transistion period of drive manufacturing. Turned that on, applied the patch. BTW, your patch seems to make the "Speed warnings" failure _more_ likely?? Still refuses to activate

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Bad CRC is a cable error. That could be misconfiguration but could also be crap cables - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. > > > > However, the error

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. > > However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed > the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going > from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell to ATA33. You RHS 7.0 kernel does not have all

2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, Finally got around to trying out 2.4.0test9. I'm going to do some VM performance comparisons (incidentally because VM should be a carefully measured science not random cool idea of the day which we have seen too much of recently). Unfortunately, I can't start fair tests yet because UDMA3

2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, Finally got around to trying out 2.4.0test9. I'm going to do some VM performance comparisons (incidentally because VM should be a carefully measured science not random cool idea of the day which we have seen too much of recently). Unfortunately, I can't start fair tests yet because UDMA3

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell to ATA33. You RHS 7.0 kernel does not have all

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Bad CRC is a cable error. That could be misconfiguration but could also be crap cables - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing. Turned that on, applied the patch. BTW, your patch seems to make the "Speed warnings" failure _more_ likely?? Still refuses to activate UDMA3.

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
have the rules for testing if the driver/host/device register and report that all signals are valid and stable. Yes, I had some "interesting" modifications to a lot of my /usr when I tried to activate UDMA4 under RH7.0 (I don't believe my hardware is capable of UDMA4!) The 2.2 kernel we

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Bad CRC is a cable error. That could be misconfiguration but could also be crap cables It went away when I enabled PIIX4 support +

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: The 2.2 kernel we ship doesnt have the ide patches either so Im not suprised it got upset 8) Ah yes you're correct. I saw the patch in the kernel SRPM but didn't look far enough to see: ... # IDE patch provides UDMA66 support, but is known to corrupt

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: ... # IDE patch provides UDMA66 support, but is known to corrupt filesystems # on a few systems, so is not applied by default. Patch151: linux-2.2.16-ide-2805.patch ... # Dangerous IDE patch available but off by default #%patch151 -p1 ...