On Saturday 18 August 2001 19:40, you wrote: > You face yet another problem. There is --no ifs ands or buts-- a > _hardware problem_ with the 686B southbridge, and another with the > KT133A Northbridge. When our 8.0 kernel sees the chipset it will dive > into crippled mode with DMA turned off. hdparm will report it turned on > but you will be unable to burn CDRWs and CD-Rs and the behavior will be > rather more sluggish than not. > > This is (halfway) fixed in our most recent kernel update, meaning we > have a workaround for the _hardware_ bug, but not a high-performance > one. Your computer will seem fairly normal, having jumped from 1.8Mb/S > to 13.40Mb/s ide read speed as measured by the benchmark programs, but > will be well below the expected benchmarks of 31.9 to 36.2 Mb/S as is > usual for udma4 or udma5 operation. > > Civileme Just thought you might be interested: Soltek SL-75KAV motherboard, 1GHz Athon, 128MB RAM Chipset: North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT-133A) and South Bridge VIA VT82C686B I haven't as yet tried burning CD-R but CDRW using gtoaster works fine. udma2: [root@localhost skinky]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.79 seconds =162.03 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.09 seconds = 20.71 MB/sec Apps seem to open fast enough, haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary (well... maybe Galeon takes a while to open - like 5 seconds?). Don't know if I'm even on the right track, but thought it might be a relevant comparison ??? Cheers skinky -- "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra
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