On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Julian Anastasov wrote:
>> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, 6149MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
>> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A, 4110MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63
>> hdc: IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63
>>
>> When I performed the tests I used similiar .17 and .18 kernels with a
>> minimum components included. No network, SCSI, sound and such things.
>> .config files can be supplied if needed.
>>
>> Does anyone know what could be wrong? Have I forgot something? Is this a
>> known problem with the 2.2.18 kernel?
>
> Yes, 2.2.18 is not friendly to all MVP3 users. The autodma
>detection was disabled for the all *VP3 users in drivers/block/ide-pci.c.
>
> If you don't experience any problems with the DMA you can:
>
>1. Add append="ide0=dma ide1=dma" in lilo.conf
>
>2. Use ide patches:
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ide.2.2.18.1209.patch.bz2
Using an MVP3 board (DFI), 2.2.18 + the above patch, with the
above mentioned config changes, DMA by default, and word93
invalidate enabled, I just enabled UDMA66 on my 2 drives and got
disk corruption.
Both drives are UDMA66 or better, and I'm using the 80 pin cable.
2 root@asdf:~# hdparm -i /dev/hd[ab]
/dev/hda:
Model=IBM-DTLA-307030, FwRev=TX4OA50C, SerialNo=YKDYKGF1437
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16,
MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=60036480
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
udma5
/dev/hdb:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL EL7.6A, FwRev=A08.1100,
SerialNo=347816714615
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=15907/15/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16,
MultSect=16
CurCHS=15907/15/63, CurSects=1597178085, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=15032115
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1
*udma2
Using "hdparm -d1X66" on these drives results in errors to syslog
followed by disk corruption. With word93 thingie NOT built into
the kernel, the corruption doesn't occur, but instead I get a
message saying UDMA 3/4/5 is not supported. It also claims the
MVP3 chipset is UDMA-33 only, whereas all relevant docs I can
muster including the mobo manual state the board is UDMA-66
capable. Mental note to myself: Do not enable WORD93 invalidate.
;o)
I've never seen UDMA66 work at all on any mobo/disk combo yet
that I've tried. My belief has been that the mobo/chipsets are
broken, and Andre's code just disables stuff known to be crap
hardware. Forcing it as I did, resulted in corruption, so I'll
tend to believe the driver next time and not push the issue. ;o)
Andre, is MVP3 capable of UDMA66 in any way shape or form, or
should I just drop the thought of ever getting it to work and buy
an add-in board? If the latter, what recommendation of hardware
would you give?
I'm getting 11 - 12Mb/s out of my disks now with the IDE patches,
which is a MAJOR improvement over the stock kernel. I'd like to
push this up closer to the drive's rated capacities though.
I'd also like to be able to use whatever kernel I want without
using vendor supplied binary-only modules for IDE support.
Is there a totally open-source solution for me? ;o)
Would I get better results at all with 2.4.0testXX, with or
without any patches, and what value of XX?
TIA
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