On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:07, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > As I told him, get the newest kernel possible. When 2.4.20 was released, > did the nForce2 chipset exist ?? If not, it's hard to support it ! :-) Now > you throw in SerialATA support on top of nForce2 and you really something > current. I couldn't get USB support to work with my nForce2 (MSI) based > board until I tried 2.4.23_preX kernels. > > Hall >
Hall, Alan, Javier and Jeffery, Thanks for your help. I have now managed to boot my A7V8X-D motherboard from the onboard SATA drive. It turned out that my 1st, and most major problem was that I somehow ended up with multiple copies of grub installed on the SATA drive. It gets a bit complicated to explain where things are supposed to be in this setup, and all of the drive partitionas, but obviously I confused myself in the process of bringing it. Anyway, problem solved and the machine is booting. Thanks for all your help! I am now running 2.4.22-aa1 and it's booting fine from SATA. I did build 2.4.23-pre8 using my own quick configuration but there is some problem there right now. I'll try that again later today possibly using Javier's config file. The initial SATA drive performance isn't bad, but isn't that great. I haven't been bold enough yet to turn on any specific optimizations in this new machine yet, so it will likely get better: Gandalf root # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 155061/16/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 Gandalf root # Gandalf root # hdparm -tT /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128MB in 0.34 seconds=376.47MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64MB in 1.78 seconds= 35.96MB/sec Gangalf root # Not bad, but actually not as good as the EIDE system I'm responding on right now: Wizard root # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1320 MB in 2.00 seconds = 660.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.04 seconds = 46.13 MB/sec Wizard root # Both systems are Athlon-XP and Asus motherboards (A7V333-X with a 2600+ vs. A7N8X-Deluxe with a 2500+ Barton) and both drives are 80GB. Now, on to getting more hardware working and X running! Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
