Re: Support for Via MP3 chipset

Lenart Gabor (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:56:33 +0100


On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 04:52:40PM -0700, Dan Egli wrote:
> Anyone know if the Via Apollo chipset drivers in 2.2.2 support this IDE
> chipset for UDMA? I'm getting a UDMA drive soon and would like to use it.
>
> VIA Technologies VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 (rev 4)
>
> If not, any idea when support will be added?
>
> Thanks!

T think everything is okey with this chipset. See my results :

root@oxygene:~# uname -a
Linux oxygene 2.2.2 #1 Tue Feb 23 11:12:33 CET 1999 i586 unknown
root@oxygene:~# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3] (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8598
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 41)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1106:0000
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) (prog-if 8a)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at e000

00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ ?
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

at boot :

VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EL5.1A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-ROM CDU55E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EL5.1A, 4892MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=623/255/63, UDMA

and speed :

root@oxygene:~# hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.91 seconds =11.00 MB/sec

(it's 11.11 Mb/s but I didn't want to kick off my users to test the transfer
speed with no load :)

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