From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:58:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:57:58 -0500 Received: from smtp1.mail.yahoo.com ([128.11.69.60]:20741 "HELO smtp1.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:57:50 -0500 X-Apparently-From: Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:28:16 +0000 From: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fw: UDMA on 815e chipset In-Reply-To: <3A5337EB.56172C60@windsormachine.com> In-Reply-To: <20010103121218Z130812-439+8159@vger.kernel.org> <3A5337EB.56172C60@windsormachine.com> Reply-To: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.9 (GTK+ 1.2.8; Linux 2.2.16; i686) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010103165751Z131368-439+8222@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike / Mark, Thank-you very much for your replies. With regard to Mike, (a) I am using a PIII 800, so I really should be seeing better results than your Celeron. It seems, therefore, that my setup may be defective in more fundamental ways than I had imagined. (b) I do appreciate that I may not see any real benefit from Ultra/66 at this stage - I was just keen to experiment and see that the hardware was working. In reply to Mark : (a) my HDD was certainly sold as UDMA 5 capable, and hdparm reports that it is. (b) I do not think you meant to suggest that I would solve the problem by deleting the -c and -m switches, but I deleted them anyway and the problem remains. (c) I wish I knew why the hell SuSE would include an obsolete kernel in their relatively new, flagship, v7 "Professional". So far as I can see, kernel 2.4 is not even an option on their ftp site. I use this machine for my business and cannot afford a major crash precipitated by a piece of inept kernel-tinkering on my part. I do have a spare machine (bx board though),and I suppose that the way ahead is to play around installing the current kernel on that until I have the confidence to put it in this box. One final thought. When I installed the OS I was offered the option to "use DMA", which I accepted. I see this set at an early stage in the boot-process (long before my boot.local executes). Is there any way this could be obstructing the subsequent instruction to use UDMA ? Thanks again, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/