Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:22:53 +0100 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | Re: VIA vt82c686b and UDMA(100) |
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Brian Dushaw (dushaw@munk.apl.washington.edu) wrote :
> Dear Linux Kernel Wisemen, > I have been following the discussion of the VIA vt82c686b chipset > and the troubles people have had in getting UDMA(100) to work. This > is to report that I have now tried the 2.4.2-ac20 kernel and the > 2.2.18 kernel with Andre's patch (dated March 20) and neither of > them get the disk speed up to where it ought to be. hdparm -t reports > back 11 MB/s or so for either kernel. > VIA82CXXX enabled, and I also tried the ide0=ata66 flag, in desparation. > At boot up both kernels report the disk as UDMA(100) - everything > seems to be peachy keen, but for the sluggish disk performance. > > Merely a report from the front lines, > > B.D.
Do you also have IDE_AUTO_WHATEVER option enabled , as suggested ( no, commanded ) in the VIA_IDE_OPTION help text ? ( press '?' when selecting the VIA IDE driver option )
cat /proc/ide/via ?
What do you think is the "correct" transfer rate of the disk ?
For the record , I have a MSI K7T Pro2A board ( VIA KT133 with a vt82c686b south bridge ) and a IBM DTLA 307045 hard drive on a 80 wire IDE cable ( set to CABLE-SELECT , connected to the end connector; you must always first use both connectors on the end of the cable ! never left one end unused )
Without doing any settings with hdparm, I get the full transfer rate of the disk, measured with hdparm : ~35MB/s
kernel is 2.4.recent or redhat recent 2.4.x versions.
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