From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265678AbUBPRRS (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:17:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265740AbUBPRRS (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:17:18 -0500 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:47752 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265678AbUBPRRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:17:13 -0500 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Timothy Miller Subject: Re: 2.4.24 problems [WAS: Re: IDE DMA problem [WAS: Re: Getting lousy NFS + tar-pipe throughput on 2.4.20]] Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:20:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Balaji Calidas References: <402D6262.90301@techsource.com> <200402140154.54307.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <4030F94F.1000900@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: <4030F94F.1000900@techsource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402161820.32901.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 16 of February 2004 18:09, Timothy Miller wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Saturday 14 of February 2004 01:16, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > > Does 2.4.20 not work well with the KT600 > > > >>chipset? > > > > It doesn't, upgrade to 2.4.24. > > Ok, so we tried that. That caused all sorts of havoc, most of which we > might be able to figure out. It seems that RedHat's utilities and stuff > don't get along well with 2.4.24 if all you do is just boot the new > kernel. Seems a bunch of other stuff needs to be upgraded. > > Also, 'root=LABEL=/' doesn't work anymore in grub.conf, and there seems > to be no way to enable it. Is this a RedHat only thing? This feature is not present in vanilla kernels. > In any event, when we managed to get it to boot, it absolutely did NOT > fix the DMA problem with the KT600. Trying to enable it with hdparm > still says "Operation not permitted". We spend a LOT of time trying to > make sure we got the kernel configured right with all of the right > options, etc., but we're still without IDE DMA. > > Any further suggestions? Do you have VIA IDE driver compiled in? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y If so, please send output of 'dmesg' command. --bart