Hi Paul, I am running NT4.0 and Linux 7.0-2 smp mode on the ide3 port.
Nt is on hde drive, and linux is on the second drive at hdf. I do not
have any hard drives on the ide1 ide2 or ide4 ports. My CD-ROMS are on
ide1 port, and this setup works very well. I have a very stable system,
and am using the original High Point drivers that came on the disk.
Running 2 Celerons at 466 MHZ not over clocked, right now. System staty
cool and can run the PS test with out crashing. For a lot of help with
the BP6 board you should check out the message board at
http://www.bp6.com/forum , those guys have all the answers that you will
ever need.
ttyl,
Don ....
Paul Gratz wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any
> good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake
> from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of the statements I saw sent around about it
> was that it natively supported the HPT366 UDMA66 interface that is part of the
> BP6 motherboard. Mandrake does successfully work and install on a drive that
> is on that bus but the performance I'm getting is horrible, worse than the
> drives I have on the BX chip set's native IDE interface.
>
> I have tried doing "hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hde" but the system just locks up
> after a few seconds. I've also tried various variations on that but none seem
> to work and most lock the machine up.
>
> Here is a sample of the output from hdparm:
> [root@gratz1 /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
>
> Model=ST317242A, FwRev=3.09, SerialNo=7BP03H3M
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
> BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=65535/1/63, CurSects=4128705, LBA=yes, LBAsects=33683328
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4
> [root@gratz1 /root]# hdparm -t /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 23.67 seconds = 2.70 MB/sec
>
> as you can see I'm only getting 2.7 MB/sec when I should be able to get around
> 20MB/sec
>
> Here is info from dmesg regarding HPT366:
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
> PCI: HPT366: Fixing interrupt 18 pin 2 to ZERO
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hda: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: Maxtor 83500D4, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: E-IDE CD-ROM CR-854E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hde: ST317242A, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xb402 on irq 18
> hda: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, 3337MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=847/128/63
> hdb: Maxtor 83500D4, 3339MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=848/128/63
> hde: ST317242A, 16446MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=33416/16/63
> hdc: ATAPI 54X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
>
> Here are the entries from /proc/pci:
>
> Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 IDE
>UltraDMA/66 (rev 1).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 18. Master Capable. Latency=120. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
> I/O at 0xb000 [0xb001].
> I/O at 0xb400 [0xb401].
> I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
> Bus 0, device 19, function 1:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 IDE
>UltraDMA/66 (rev 1).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 18. Master Capable. Latency=120. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
> I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc01].
> I/O at 0xc000 [0xc001].
> I/O at 0xc400 [0xc401].
>
> (Just to be pedantic) here is other info from /proc:
> [root@gratz1 /proc]# cat interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 50435 40884 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 1528 955 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 5: 3 0 IO-APIC-edge soundblaster
> 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> 12: 3459 4142 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 136 88 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 17: 10 13 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
> 18: 33817 33596 IO-APIC-level ide2, eth0
> 19: 37 31 IO-APIC-level eth1
> NMI: 0
> ERR: 0
> [root@gratz1 /proc]# cat dma
> 3: SoundBlaster8
> 4: cascade
> 5: SoundBlaster16
> [root@gratz1 /proc]# cat ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0070-007f : rtc
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 0170-0177 : ide1
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 0220-022f : soundblaster
> 0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
> 0376-0376 : ide1
> 0388-038b : Yamaha OPL3
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
> a400-a41f : eth1
> a800-a8ff : eth0
> ac00-acfe : aic7xxx
> b000-b007 : ide2
> b402-b402 : ide2
> b800-b807 : ide2
> b810-b8ff : HPT366
> c400-c407 : ide3
> c410-c4ff : HPT366
> f000-f007 : ide0
> f008-f00f : ide1
>
> If anyone can help me with this one I will send you a six pack of your favorite
> beer (provided you are of age of course :-).
>
> Thanks
> Paul
