CMD640 Beta Testing.

Jochen Toppe (jtoppe@hiwaay.net)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:28:38 -0500 (CDT)

After applying the new patch that was just send to me by
the ide-guy ;), I rebooted and tested the system. Now it actually
booted, both with the parameters "ide0=autotune and ide1=autotune" and
without. However, the system hung for a few seconds when my init scripts
where adding the 25Meg swap which is located under /dev/hdb1 and loaded
via fstab. Then it spit this out:
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
This happened with and without the kernel parameters. Then it booted
normally from there on.

However, the performance was not good [hdparm -t /dev/hda]:
W/O the kernel parameters: 1.58 MB/sec [on a WD AC31000F mode 3]
W/ the kernel parameters: 2.42 MB/sec [ " " " " ]
w/ kernel 2.0.0 and CMD support: 3.38 MB/sec [ " " " ]

Upon a warm reboot w/o the parameters I got the following error message
after the error stated above:
EXT2-fs warning (device 03:03): ext2 _free_inode: bit already
cleared for inode 2339

System Configuration:
P100, Gigabyte Motherboard, Award Bios, 16M Ram, CMD640B PCI,
floppy tape streamer [ditto 420], Tekram DC390 SCSI.
/dev/hda: WD AC31000F 1Gig mode 3 ide drive
/dev/hdb: WD AC2420F 420M mode 3 ide drive
/dev/hdc: Toshiba XM-5302TA cdrom.

Tell me if you need more. Regards,

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