Re: UDMA and VIA APOLLO CHIPSET

Thierry Vignaud (tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:44:03 +0200


Juan Casero wrote:

> I know you guys are busy with 2.3.x development but I was wondering if there
> was the possibility that UDMA mode may be supported on a VIA Apollo chipset
> motherboard like the TYAN 100AT in the 2.2.x kernels? I currently use the
> 2.2.10 kernel on such a system with an AMD K6-II and UDMA does not work under
> Linux in spite of the fact that the BIOS recognizes the drives as UDMA
> hardware. Any help is much appreciated since right now these drives are giving
> me no more than 5 Mb/sect transfer rates.

Try these boot parameters : "ide0=autotune ide1=autotune"
You can add it with an append line in your /etc/lilo.conf or on the
command line of loadlin.

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