>>>>> "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi >> That is very, very weird. >> >> If I remembered correctly You told me that for you 2.4.21 is faster >> than 2.4.22. (~50MB/s vs ~20MB or something like that). >> john> Nope, its the other way around; 50 for 2.4.22, and 27 for 2.4.21 Oh, that makes much more sense >> >> You have in _both_ dmesg messages acpi disabled (that means that acpi >> can't be related with that). >> >> What is more strange is that in 2.4.21 your disk is recognized as UDMA33 >> one, instead of UDMA100. >> >> Could you check that your cable is UDMA100 really? >> >> -hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, >> UDMA(33) +hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, >> CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100) >> >> This are the relevant lines. If I remembered rigth, you can't get >> 50MB/s with UDMA33. >> john> This probably explains what the problem is then; I'm getting UDMA100 with the john> 2.4.22-0.8, and this is probably the source of the problem. >> >> hdparm -i output with both kernels should be more interesting. >> >> And could you please send me the dmesg output with apci=on (i.e no >> pci=noacpi neither acpi=off). >> john> I trying to do a clean re-install, but current cooker (locally generated ISO) john> is not installable. john> I've also put the 2.4.22 kernel on my other machine (NF7-S V1.2, which is john> normally very stable), and X crashed after 3 hours, with console video john> knackered. john> Will keep everyone posted. Ouch :( Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
