Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6,2.4] HPT366 (on Abit BP6) + Seagate 7000.7 + DMA = kernel halted | From | Jan Mynarik <> | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:29:27 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:59, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > Must be a problem with the harddisk; I do also have a Abit BP6 board > with two WD800JB which work fine on the HPT366 controller. Maybe you > should try to connect them to one of the PIIX4 IDE channels. Btw: I do > have CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO enabled so I do not even need to use hdparm > to enable DMA. >
It supports my idea that linux kernel driver miss some 'special' initialization for Seagate disk. But I need to try HighPoint's own driver first, hopefully during weekend.
I also know that's not problem of AUTO DMA, I tried it and it didn't change anything. During boot driver reports that my disk can do only PIO.
However I am myself not so sure if I should use the HPT366 or the PIIX4 > controller as I got better cache read throughput (hdparm -T) with the > PIIX4 controller and could avoid sharing an interrupt. Maybe someone > here is willing to share some piece of advice? >
The problem with faster controller is a bit funny. I suppose that the HPT366 controller is there because of its ability to run UDMA66, so that it should be faster.
Anyway, thanks for your comments.
Pogo
-- Jan Mynarik <mynarikj@phoenix.inf.upol.cz>
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