Re: Multimedia Performance
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:42:09AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
>
> > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make
> > much difference.
> > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode
> > $hdparm /dev/hda
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Thanks for replying. From hdparm...
> using_dma = 1 (on)
Looks good.
> > because this is what the patch is ment for. I don't need the IDE-patch
> > on my Athlon-system, I just do a "hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda" in my boot
> > scripts and it works.
>
> As I understand it, the Viper chipset isn't supported without the patch.
But what do you mean by "not supported"? Sure your devices are working
so where is the problem?
> I found that if I tried to do "hdparm -d1" without it, nothing happened.
>
> Are you using that chipset, or some other disk controller?
No, I don't use any additional controller.
phil:~% /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7006
(rev 25)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7007
(rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7408
(rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device
7409 (rev 07)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 740b (rev
03)
My board is a MSI-K7pro and it works great.
Phil
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