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

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:45:10PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:51:03 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >
> >> I'm running with an Abit K7 (uses via82c686a in southbridge) with IBM
> >> deskstar 8.4gb disks (DHEA-38451) as masters in ide0 and 1. They only
> >> do UDMA mode 2. I am not overclocking or anything - all should be
> >> running at default speeds with an Athlon 900.  
> >> 
> >> Just to be clear - I am NOT getting any errors when I switch back to
> >> the 2.2.17 kernel (debian standard) - with a 2.4.0 kernel they occur
> >> every few minutes when there is significant disk activity. 
> >
> >But that kernel uses the stock driver that was the original second
> >generation correct?
> >
> >Andre Hedrick
> >Linux ATA Development
> >
> 
> Sorry, I realise now what I said was ambiguous.  To be clear
> 
> 2.2.17 - absolutely standard as shipped in debian - no errors
> 2.4.0 - standard (downloaded tar.bz2) - ERRORS
> 2.4.0 - as standard except for three files in tar.bz2 attachment to
> Vojtech Pavlik's mail which were placed in drivers/ide directory -
> ERRORS. 
> Alan

Wonderful! A case where I can compare a working setup with a nonworking
one! :) Could you please send me the usual stuff (dmesg, lspci -vvxxx,
cat /proc/ide/via, hdparm -i /dev/hd*, hdparm -t /dev/hd*) for both the
2.2 case and the 2.4.0+VIA-latest case? That'll allow me to find the
differences and possibly fix the new driver.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs