Re: [2.3.99pre2] [CORRUPTION] Doh! Corruption problems again...

From: Simon Kirby (sim@stormix.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 23:05:28 EST


On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:39:26PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by trying to DMA without autodma?
> >
> > I'm using an ASUS P2B-DS (PIIX4 tuning and all enabled in kernel config)
> > with two Celerons. 128MB ECC SDRAM. Three WD hard drives are attached:
> >
> > hda: WDC WD273BA, 26105MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=3328/255/63, UDMA(33)
> > hdb: WDC WD273BA, 26105MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=3328/255/63, UDMA(33)
> > hdc: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
> >
> > The first two are UDMA/66 drives, but everything is plugged into the
> > UDMA/33 on-board controller.
>
>
> I missed the point.....
> You have to enable "ACTIVE" Tuning! CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING
>
> You have to brute force the drives back in to conforming to the speed
> limits of the host adapter.

That's what I already have enabled:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING=y

:)

Simon-

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