Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-07-01 Thread Manuël Beunder
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: Vic wrote: I just type hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda for the first ide drive On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-23 Thread Paul Gratz
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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-23 Thread John N
Could you tell us, step by step, how you did this? Thank You Paul Gratz wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-21 Thread Paul Gratz
[snip] 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. Read

[expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Paul Gratz
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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Vic
I just type hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda for the first ide drive On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Don
Hi Paul, I am running NT4.0 and Linux 7.0-2 smp mode on the ide3 port. Nt is on hde drive, and linux is on the second drive at hdf. I do not have any hard drives on the ide1 ide2 or ide4 ports. My CD-ROMS are on ide1 port, and this setup works very well. I have a very stable system, and am

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Civileme
Vic wrote: I just type hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda for the first ide drive On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Steve Browne
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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Paul Gratz
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