You have to use my patch with 2.2 or a 2.4.0x kernel.
Then you are required to set EXPERIMENTAL
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX
CONFIG_VIA_TUNING
Cheers,
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> ??? Where do you turn this on? I enable support for the VIA chipsets
> through make menuconfig in the 2.2.x kernels but never noticed a VIA_TUNING
> option. Is the the same thing? Currently I would assume so as hdparm
> appears to work for me. Also the help page for the VIA support should
> probably be updated to speak about the idebus parameter. I didn't know I
> had to use it myself until I saw you mention it on this list recently.
> Until then I assumed the eventual failure of optimizations done through
> hdparm were due to buggy VIA chipsets, FIC/shuttle motherboards, or the
> still mark experimental Linux driver. By the way for some reason on the FIC
> PAG-2130 the idebus parameter was unnecessary for the proper operation of
> the various optimizations done through hdparm.
>
> Can the idebus paramter just default to 33 now? Other than overclockers
> virtually nobody is really getting systems that diviate from a 33 Mhz bus
> nowadays.
>
> >
> > But you never stated if you turned on the VIA_TUNING.
> >
> > You may not do the hdparm line with out it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andre Hedrick
> > The Linux ATA/IDE guy
> >
>
>
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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