Re: UDMA not supported on my board

CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:16:38 +1100 (EST)

Mark Lord wrote the following:
>
> CaT wrote:
> ...
> > Well... I could be mistaken but it is my firm belief that I should
> > be getting > 170kbps on a UDMA drive. :) That is the problem. She's
> > lookin a tad slow :) I changed it to do 32bit io support and to turn
> > unmaskirq on but it didn't changeperformance any. the rest of the
> > settings are as normal.
> >
> > The MB is an AOpen AX6BC with v2.20 bios.
> ..
> Heh! I supply those boards for Linux systems all the time,
> and nary a problem. What have you done!?

*sob*

> Those are just plain jane BX chipset P2 boards,
> with full BIOS UDMA support, and they normally work
> just Great! with the stock kernel.

*weep*

> Exactly what BIOS do you have? (full name, not just the number).

Erk. Ummm... without rebooting I can tell you that it's exactly THIS
one:

http://www.aopen.com.tw/scripts/ftplist.asp?pub/bios/ax6bc/ax6bc220.exe

I've upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.2. :) I got these board when
they first came out.

> Are you trying to overclock anything? (the AWARD BIOS has tricks for that).
> Do you have UDMA set to "AUTO" for the drive(s) in question in the BIOS?

>From memory yes. Since it costs 25c/phone call here I wont reboot just now
but before logging off and shutting down tonight I'll make a note of that
and the exact BIOS id.

> What does "cat /proc/ide/ide0/config" give us?

1022.root@kinder:/usr/lib>> cat /proc/ide/ide0/config
pci bus 00 device 39 vid 8086 did 7111 channel 0
86 80 11 71 05 00 80 02 01 80 01 01 00 40 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
37 e3 30 c0 bb 00 00 00 09 00 02 20 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00

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CaT (cat@zip.net.au)                       URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null


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