Re: ALI V

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 01:58:34AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 15:40 -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a super 7 mother board with ALI V chipset. This chipset is not directly
> > supported by kernel 2.2, but there is a patch to support (and some others) at:
> > 
> > http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
> > 
> > If I understand well these are the "official" ide developers for the linux
> > kernel. So I am considering to give it a try.
> > 
> > Anyone out there that got udma on ALI V working with this patch?
> 
> Yup, works fine with my 2.2.3 kernel and Asus P5A mobo. Mind you, I had a
> problem with IRQ timeouts, so that DMA couldn't be set, but it was fixed
> when I got proper PC100 memory for some reason.

I installed it after seeing Paulo's message. According to hdparm -t,
on my one UDMA drive (a Western Digital 6.4 Gb) I now get about 9.7 Mb/s
versus 6 Mb/s before. Not bad! The other drives seem a bit faster too
(which is good, because the 6.4 isn't my Linux root).


Hamish
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