Hey all,
I just wanted to follow up and tell how I got it to work. Its kind of
cheating but I downloaded the Gentus distribution and stole the kernel that
comes with it and put it in my mandrake 7.1. I'm now getting about 6 times the
performance out of my UDMA66 drive. The kernel doesn't have t
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> recompile for 386 code, kernel and driver.
>
> The Seagate IDE drive is marginal at the timing and signal gating
> requirements of 586 code and often locks up. So do MOST WDs,
> though some of them will work without the Xxx parm and often run
> close to the UDMA66 speed required.
>
Hmmm well actually hda is not on the hpt366 its drive hde
In anyevent I tried that on hde and after a few seconds this is what happens:
[root@gratz1 /root]# hde: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12
hde: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekCo
Hi all,
I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any
good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake
from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of the statements I saw sent around about it
was that it natively supported the HPT366 UDMA66 interface
