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, 31 Jan 2001 01:50:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:50:17 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-195-162-81.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.195.162.81]:24592 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:50:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:49:26 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: "David D.W. Downey" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA VT82C686X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > Woohoo! Just found out that ATA66 on the VIA aint too great. > > I set the kernel boot options idebus=66 ide0=ata66 enabling ATA66 Sorry but you are not right in this world ....... Where in you manual does is "QUOTE" you can drive the ATA/IDE bus at 66MHz? > according to dmesg. The HDD is a WDC UDMA100 30.5GB drive. I retried the > > dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/tmp/testing2.img bs=1024k count=2000 > > on one VT, ran renice -20 on the dd process then ran procinfo on another > and top on a 3rd. I logged into a fourth and ran sync;sync;sync;sync;sync. > > After @30 seconds the machine became totally unresponsive, locking up all > but the current VT. > > I let it sit there and waited until the dd finished in case the renice was > what killed the control. When dd finished I tried running any type of > command but the tty was completely frozen. All other VTs were non > responsive as well. > > > This is gonna be fun when I test the Promise controller. hehe > > > David D.W. Downey > > > - > 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/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - 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/