I forgot the "l" 'crippled' and I can not spell.........
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Peter Steiner wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <andre@suse.com> wrote:
>
> >IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, (U)DMA
> >
> >This is an ATA-66 drive that has been cripped to ATA-2 and corrected to
> >ATA-33. This can be fixed like I fixed the cmd646 code.
>
> What does "cripped to" mean? I bought it as an ATA-66 drive.
>
> Anyway, 2.3.40 now shows:
>
> |Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> |ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> |ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> | ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> |ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> |ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> |hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, ATA DISK drive
> |ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> |hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33)
>
> | -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> | -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> | 100 3200 99.5 13017 23.0 4715 11.0 2861 90.5 10019 10.0 125.7 2.9
>
> |/dev/hda:
> | Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 2.63 seconds =24.33 MB/sec
> | Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.23 seconds =14.35 MB/sec
> |Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test.
>
> This happens with latest 2.3.x kernels (I don't know exactly when it started).
>
> |# free
> | total used free shared buffers cached
> |Mem: 62504 57340 5164 0 46640 2852
> |-/+ buffers/cache: 7848 54656
>
> I don't think there's not enough memory free. More probably the buffer-cache
> hash table is too small (1024 buckets).
>
> Peter
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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