Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: regression between 2.4.18 and 2.4.21/22 | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:49:16 +0200 |
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On Monday 06 of October 2003 22:21, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Monday, Oct 6, 2003, at 15:06 America/New_York, Bartlomiej > > Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Your /dev/hda (IBM DeskStar 60GXP) is not in DMA mode because > > you don't have support for your IDE controller compiled-in. > > Going from 2.4.21 you have to explicitely enable support for IDE > > chipsets. > > Assumption that current .config file will work with future kernel > > versions > > is not true. Please compile kernel with driver for your on-board IDE > > chipset > > (I deducted from your dmesg that it is VIA82CXXX IDE driver). > > > > Please report back if this cures your problem, > > > > Thanks, > > --bartlomiej > > > > On Monday 06 of October 2003 01:38, Justin Hibbits wrote: > >> On Sunday, Oct 5, 2003, at 19:22 America/New_York, Bartlomiej > >> > >> Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>> Please narrow down kernel version if you want your problem to be > >>> cared. > >>> > >>> Try 2.4.19, 2.4.20. There are also intermediate prepatches at > >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/old/ > >>> > >>> dmesg output and .config can also be useful. > >>> > >>> --bartlomiej > >>> > >>> On Sunday 05 of October 2003 22:21, Justin Hibbits wrote: > >>>> Something very strange is going on with my machine. With 2.4.18, I > >>>> was > >>>> getting 38MB/s on my main system disk (IBM Deskstar 60gxp), and 35 > >>>> for > >>>> the other drives (Western Digital). The IBM drive is on a Promise > >>>> IDE > >>>> controller (ASUS A7V266-E motherboard), and the others are on a > >>>> PROMISE > >>>> 2069 UDMA133 controller. However, with 2.4.21 and 2.4.22, it will > >>>> not > >>>> set the using_dma flag for my IBM drive, but sets it for the others, > >>>> which now get sustained transfer rates of 46MB/s or greater. I'm > >>>> using > >>>> the same options for all 3 kernels (at least, for the ATA/IDE > >>>> options). > >>>> Any help would be appreciated, and I'll see if maybe I could do > >>>> something with it when I get time. > >> > >> Ok, I tried 2.4.19, which I thought was pretty bad because it randomly > >> crashed all the time, and it worked just fine with all my drives. > >> 2.4.20 with the wolk-4.0 patch also worked. So, I'm guessing it was > >> between 2.4.20 and 2.4.21....I could try all the prepatches as well, > >> and narrow down exact prepatch, will take some time. dmesg output for > >> 2.4.21 follows (uses a patchset for XFS, sensors, etc), along with my > >> config, both compressed. > > Thanks Bartlomeij, building that driver helped. Curious though, since > it's using the PROMISE chip, or should be, since, according to my > motherboard's manual, the PROMISE chip is the only IDE chip there.
Good. It has also on-board IDE ports (from VIA chipset).
--bartlomiej
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