"A week of wednesdays ago Andre M. Hedrick wrote:"
>
>
> I have a verified report that the VIA chipset in any mode but PIO
> does a hard lock with this drive revision only.
>
> The MPB3043AT id okay but MPC3043AT dies hard.
> ^B revision ^C revision
>
> Only 4.3Gig drives with the C revision of the firmware were quirky.
Data point - _BX boards_ with _dma_ (and perhaps UDMA) on this drive
are fine.
oboe:/usr/oboe/ptb% sudo hdparm -I /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
--------model = FUJITSU MPC3043AT
Model=FUJITSU MPC3043AT, FwRev=6018, SerialNo=01029749
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=8940/15/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=0(?), BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=0(slow)
CurCHS=8940/15/63, CurSects=8448300, LBA=yes, LBAsects=8448300
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
(kernel 2.0.25)
> This is the last piece of data that I had collected in the past.
Bonnie gives about 8-10MB/s sustained. 74 seeks/s
So, how do I change the drive firmware (hic).
> Note that even the "W"-word OS chokes once DMA of any level is enabled.
>
> Cheers,
> Andre Hedrick
> The IDE-FNG for Linux
> The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
>
> http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
> http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.0.bin.tar.gz
Peter
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