a last one :) Seems I not able to pass the udma-2 level for my harddrives. Anyone has a clue as to why the Nforce-IDE port does not allow more than that ? Or - has it to do with the new IDE-Drivers that got into 2.4.2x ? (Well, the IDE-Driver cleanups that took place - Thx Alan ) ...
Here the relevant dmesg-output part: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0 NFORCE2: chipset revision 162 NFORCE2: 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:DMA hda: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03e4420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03e455c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: ASUS DVD-ROM E608, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4824A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3737/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: host protected area => 1 hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(33)
Trying to set these through hdparm etc. fails, e.g. it stays at UDMA 2.
Note - drive 2 is also a IBM Drive - OEM drive - which is not marked as real IBM, or I got a Clone ;)
Here my Hardware: - Asus A7N8X Delux (Using the 3com Network Port, and Onboard Sound + USB, Firewire drivers loaded though) - 2x256MBytes Ram - 1x30GB+1x40GByte E-IDE Harddrives, running in UDMA-2 mode (Don't know if enable idebus=66 is safe. Havn tried it yet). - 1 Geforce 3 Ti500 (Hercules) with 64MBytes Ram - using the DVI Port. - 1 Eizo L465TFT Black screen (*A beauty :)*)
Thx for any hints & Cheers
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