Thanks Andre... for all your IDE work. The performance improvement by
using your stuff is huge (especially my ALI M5229 based laptop).
Fortunately my BP6 is running only SCSI stuff so I don't have to worry
about UDMA66 yet :) I just have to figure out why Linux doesn't like my
narrow devices on the MegaRAID controller.
Brian Macy
Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> I have been running, crashing, writing the ide code since the end of July.
> Here is the current list of minor quirks.
>
> Second ATA-66 channel is not supported (ide4 marked on mainboard) due to
> the interrupt assignment pin is B. MPS is both 1.1 and 1.4 but the OS has
> to enable 1.4 mode. ATAPI devices hang if not tuned actively. You can
> elect to boot of EXT or UDMA/SCSI; however, UDMA-ATA66 requires the
> following flag for PCI setup, pci=reverse. Failure to do so will cause
> the drive order in your fstab to be inverted. The markers on the
> mainboard for FAN1 and FAN2 are reversed. This can cause the health
> monitoring to get kookie, this was found by accident.
>
> APIC quirk created by me:
>
> Adding in 4 additional ABIT HOTROD 66 cards cause the "number of MP IRQ
> sources" to exceed the "number of IO-APIC registers", it still cooks.
>
> Overall, it rocks.
>
> For the RECORD, everyone running this board under linux today owes
> "Mr. Jon Burchmore" a favor. I could not get one, thus Jon sent me one w/
> a processor/fan and memory back in July. It was a gift, of course I
> pulled out of my pocket a case, video card, harddrives, etc....the usually
> stuff.
>
> Jon, care to give your take on this toy?
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux IDE guy
>
> On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Brian Macy wrote:
>
> > Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > >
> > > John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've only got good things to say about it. It's cheap, and it works very
> > > > well. If you're into overclocking, it's even better. LOTS of bus speeds to
> > > > choose from in the BIOS.
> > >
> > > Has anyone run the BP6 for extended periods of time with no problems?? I've
> > > reported to this list of a problem I'm having, and I'm STILL trying to figure
> > > it out. The latest tweak I did was to totally reinstall Debian Slink, keeping
> > > everything in the "stable" line of packages.
> > >
> > > And, well, the system ground to a halt after almost 6 days of uptime (as
> > > opposed to 1-2 days before), although this time I was *not* thrashing it with
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > I don't know if this is a MB problem or not, though. I suspect not, since
> > > there've been no other reports. My latest suspect is actually the Virtual
> > > RAM/swap, and I'm going to try some tests to see if I can replicate the
> > > crash...
> >
> > I've just installed one... it's working quite well. My only problems are
> > related to my new MegaRAID card and my CD/CDRW drives. I haven't left it
> > up and running long (just got it installed Friday midnight) but I
> > haven't had a single problem with it. I'm running RedHat 6.0 with all
> > the updates and kernel 2.2.13pre6.
> >
> > I'm not overclocking... yet... with 2 366's.
> >
> > Brian Macy
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