Re: TritonII IDE interface not PCI compliant?
mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:16:03 -0400
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> > If my preliminary tests are correct, the IDE interface from the
> > Triton/Natoma chipset, the 82371SB chip, is not using the "Latency"
> > counter.
...
> > This is my IDE interface according to /proc/pci:
> >
> > Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
> > IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0).
> > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
> > Latency=32. I/O at 0xe800.
> >
> > Whenever I do disk access (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null works nicely),
> > I get tons of overruns from the other board.
> >
> > To me this indicates that the 82371SB isn't honoring the latency
> > counter. Anybody have a different explanation? Anybody see the same?
..
> The real fix is probably DMA (hense SCSI).
>
> I don't think the IDE interface is capable of DMA.
The IDE interface is already using full scatter-gather bus-master DMA
(considerably faster than all but the highest-end SCSI interfaces),
which is the whole point of this discussion about the PCI latency timers..
In this case, the other data-capture PCI device is likely the source
of trouble (no guarantee though, as Intel ain't exactly forthcoming
in letting anyone know about bugs in *their* chips); investigations are ongoing.
-ml