On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:48:50 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 # > Uhm, i configured this with 2.6 kernel on my girlfriend's computer (not an ASUS, bur an ABIT with same characteristics) and the hdparm gives around 1000Mb/s form buffer-cache and 56Mb/s from buffered disk reads. You may try this hdparm params for your SATA drive: hdparm -a255 (-a4096 with 2.6kenrel) -d1 -m16 -c1 -X69 -M254 -u1 This should give better results to you from the Siimage SATA 3112 chip. > 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 > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
