> Barbara M. wrote: > > > > > I am replacing a mail server that have an ASUS P4P800-X mother > > board with a (new) HP Proliant ML110. If I use a single ATA disk I > > have "hdparm -t /dev/hdX" that report values around 55-60 MB/sec If > > I use a SATA disk I have 2-4 MB/sec (both on the SATA and to the > > ATA drives). Playing with hdparm I obtain 8-10 MB/sec, better, but > > ... I think it is a driver issue. How can I find the chipset and > > the related driver for this m.b.?
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:26:07PM -0600, Dennis Hitzigrath wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello B! > > Your ASUS P4P800-X = INTEL 865PE MCH chipset. > > So you'd have to do a '#modprobe i865' or something, but I'm not sure > of the module you require for the SATA to work the way it should. I guess that would be 'modprobe ata_piix', that supports Intel ICH5 SATA controllers. Of course you want to load this one from an initrd image and not after booting. I've been through this kind of trouble on a Dell PE 750, you may find my previous postings here. Summary is that I had to build a 2.6 kernel over TSL 2.2 (I didn't want to upgrade to TSL 3.0) to have that chip properly supported, with good performance. There are specific BIOS issues with the Dell PE750, though, that make the situation a bit more complex. The DELL BIOS puts the SATA controller in so-called 'combined mode' that (to my knowledge) the 2.4.x ata_piix doesn't support. Hence the need for 2.6.x. Your mileage may therefore vary. Greets, _A_ _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
