Re: IDE DMA/VIA woes on SuSE 2.4.19-167

Meino Christian Cramer (mccramer@s.netic.de)
Wed, 05 Mar 2003 06:15:58 +0100 (MET)


From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject: IDE DMA/VIA woes on SuSE 2.4.19-167
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 03:44:46 +0100

Hi,

..."similiar" here:

CDRW: Plextor 48/24/10
Linux 2.4.20
EPoX 8K5A3+ (VIA KT333)

Copying the contents of CD is VERY SLOW...

Copying a CD is more worst than a CDRW of comparable contents.

....sigh

Keep Hacking!
Meino

> Hi,
>
> I have some issues here:
>
> Plextor PX-W4824TA 1.03 as hdc (no hdd)
> VIA KT133
>
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
> I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
> Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
>
> When I try to enable DMA (hdparm -d1 or hdparm -d1 -X66), hdparm -tT
> chokes, SuSE k_athlon-2.4.19-167. FreeBSD-5 (with atapicam) is fine and
> uses UDMA33.
>
> SuSE's kernel seems to be fine on a different hardware (VIA KT333 +
> Toshiba SD-M1612).
>
> I've tried 2.4.21-pre5 which crashes on boot, I haven't yet been able to
> go fishing for the Ooops and decode it (I have serial console here, so
> it's just a matter of finding the time to do that).
>
> ide-scsi makes no difference (not that I had expected that).
>
> Which kernel version should I try next before thinking about this for
> longer?
>
> --
> Matthias Andree
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