Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> just a few ideas.....
> is your hd the slave or master, and if the master is there a slave
> connected to the same cable?
It doesn't matter. I have tried it as master, slave, master with a slave
and master alone ... no change.
> Is the ide interface connected to the ISA or PCI bus?
It is definately PCI. This is according to both the BIOS at boot time and
Linux.
> interface 2 has my CD and LS120 drives. What speed is your cpu? How
> much cache and dram. I have 64MB dram and 512K cache with a K6-233.
Intel P166 clocked at the proper speed. 256K pipeline cache, 32MB Ram. The
other system that does the same thing is an AMD-K5-100 w 80MB RAM and 512K
pipeline cache.
>
> I would think that the ide interface has a ready/busy status and the
> driver would wait for the drive, but maybe the drive is giving an
> advanced ready signal?
That could be, or the driver times out too early waiting for it to
complete.
George Bonser
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