Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - It boots SATA!
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:37, Javier Villavicencio wrote: 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 # 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. Javier, I'll probably end up starting another thread on this after I do some web browsing on the subject, but the only one of these parameters that had any effect was -d0 (dma off) which made the performance very slow. (1.3MB/S) Other than that none of these seem to have any effect at all on this system. I'll have to make sure there are no driver updates or anything like that as I am using 2.4.22-aa1. I'll also try your 2.4.23 kernel as that could certainly have updates for this chip. Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - It boots SATA!
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - It boots SATA!
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus A7N8X-Deluxe - What kernel works? - It boots SATA!
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:48:50 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, problem solved and the machine is booting. Thanks for all your help! 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/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: Yeah, you definitely need some tuning. With my lowly Maxtor 30G disk I get /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 652 MB in 2.00 seconds = 325.40 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 122 MB in 3.04 seconds = 40.11 MB/sec -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
