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

Alan Chandler (alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk)
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:55:13 +0000


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 that created the Ultra DMA 0,1,2,3,4,5 show how darn tight it
>constrained. You need to assume absolutes because the various board
>makers screw up the skew tables by the PCB lane traces.
>

I am not sure this is just a question of small variations. The hdparm
-t differences between these two versions is quite significant. This
evidence would imply that the two approaches are making fundemental
different decisions about what my hardware can do!

Under 2.2.17

/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.86 seconds = 2.93 MB/sec

/dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 20.81 seconds = 3.08 MB/sec

Under 2.4.0

/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.58 seconds = 9.73 MB/sec

/dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.59 seconds = 9.71 MB/sec

Alan

alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandler.u-net.com
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