Re: hdparm and old system
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:56:59PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a 486 with 1 byte serial FIFO. This means if I transfer stuff
> > through my modem, I get a bunch of bits lost when HD trasnfer any
> > data. To fix the problem I unmasked IRQs on the HD controller.
> >
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> I could be way off the mark here but when your system boots, does it
> say 2 x serial ports 16550 UART ?
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> If not replace your serial/hd controller with a 16550 uart model
>
> -Matt
It's a 16450 UART [or something like that]. Hence 1 byte FIFO instead of
16 byte FIFO.
If the interrupts were unmasked properly then I wouldn't need to get new
hardware... As I said, it works in 2.2.x series...
- Adam
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