Re: Aladdin 1533/1543(C) chipset IDE and UDMA

From: Tom Crane (uhap023@alpha1.rhbnc.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 13:01:04 EST


In article <20000304174312.B1370@iname.com>, Rogerio Brito <rbrito@iname.com> writes:
> On Mar 04 2000, Ceri Storey wrote:
>> Will we see support for the above in 2.2.x in the future, or will we
>> hav to wait till 2.4? I was hand merging in the patches from Andre
>> Hedrick, but the last version was for 2.2.10, and the web page has
>> gone. I was getiing:
>> hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>> in /var/log/messages, and the performance sucked.
>
> Get André's patches from any linux.kernel mirror. This way
> you won't have to wait for 2.4.
>
> And they've really improved since the 2.2.10 days. They've
> solved my problem and now the performance is much, much better.

Do you know if rev 20 of the M5229 IDE controller is supported yet, by the
latest 2.3 kernels or patches? I'm currently on 2.3.37 which does not give
UDMA, it drops back to multiword DMA.
Thanks
Tom.

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