Re: Slow IDE-drive with 3c59x module and network loaded

Al Goldstein n (al@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 21:50:29 -0800 (PST)


On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Anders Semb Hermansen wrote:

Am I correct in assuming your drive works OK on some other Linux
kernel under the same conditions?

> Hello
>
> I have now tried the newest version of the 3c59x driver (v0.99H) and it
> does NOT solve my problem :-(
>
> Does anybody else have an idea. I really need to solve this problem, if
> not 2.2.x is really not useable to me :-(
>
> Regards,
> Anders
>
> --
> Anders Semb Hermansen
> E-Mail: <ahermans@vf.telia.no>
> Cellmail: <93802837@sms.netcom.no>
>
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Al Goldstein n wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Anders Semb Hermansen wrote:
> > Anders -- Have you got the latest driver for your NIC? The one in 2.1.132
> > is not current. I haven't checked 2.2.0-pre1.
> > Al
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > In the 2.1.x (from 2.1.128 to 2.1.131) and 2.2.0-pre1 my hard-drive (IDE)
> > > gets VERY slow when I start the network. It works fine with 2.0.x kernels.
> > >
> > > To tar out a file that normally takes less than a second takes over 10(!)
> > > seconds when the network is started.
> > >
> > > The IDE interface is a Intel 82371SB PIIX3
> > > The NIC is a 3com 3c905B
> > >
> > > The attached file is from 2.0.36, if you need any lspci output from newer
> > > 2.1.x or 2.2.0-prex kernels please say so.
> > >
> > > I'm willing to give out any other information upon request.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Anders
> > >
> > > --
> > > Anders Semb Hermansen
> > > E-Mail: <ahermans@vf.telia.no>
> > > Cellmail: <93802837@sms.netcom.no>
> > >
> >
>

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