Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We've got a new Athlon machine (700MHz), running RH6.1 and 2.2.14 (nfs3
> client patches) with a Microstar MSI 6167 motherboard. The UDMA on the IBM
> hard drives appears not to work. The kernel seems to find DMA capability
> on booting, but does not enable it. Enabling it with hdparm hangs the
> machine when you start using it.
We have a similar setup, but with an Athlon/500 and a 13 GB Seagate
ST313032A.
I have added the ide patches from
ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ and have that drive
running smoothly with DMA since then.
XX is your top-level-domain code, try uk in your case.
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
<4>AMD7409: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
<4>AMD7409: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
<4>hda: ST313032A, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6602B, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<4>hda: UDMA 0xc0 PIO 0x20 :: UDMA 0x40 PIO 0x20
<6>hda: ST313032A, 12419MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1583/255/63, UDMA(33)
<4>hdc: UDMA 0xc0 PIO 0x20 :: UDMA 0x40 PIO 0x20
<4>hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
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