Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-07-02 Thread Manuël Beunder
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Dave Cotton wrote: > > > > I also have spent a frustrating week with UDMA problems including a > > totally unreadable disk (corrupted superblock). > > With Mandrake 7.0 and a UDMA 33 motherboard HDPARM reported 16MB/s with > > my WD205AA now with 7.1 this is down

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-07-01 Thread Civileme
Dave Cotton wrote: > > I also have spent a frustrating week with UDMA problems including a > totally unreadable disk (corrupted superblock). > With Mandrake 7.0 and a UDMA 33 motherboard HDPARM reported 16MB/s with > my WD205AA now with 7.1 this is down to less than 5MB/s. With the drive > on my

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-07-01 Thread Dave Cotton
is your processor and motherboard. I have AMD 400 and 500s and DFI P5BV3+ and K6XV3+/66 mbs. > Subject: Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:01:59 -0500 > From: "Norvell Spearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-30 Thread Manuël Beunder
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use > DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with > Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade > my bios. Nothing changed. After that,

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-30 Thread Manuël Beunder
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Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-30 Thread Philippe Wautelet
Don wrote: > > OK, When the Blue High Point BIOS screen shows, Does your Drive show > " Mode 4" ? If not then your Hard Drive is not configured correctly.Western > Digital Drives work very well with the BP6 mainboard when set properly. > Western Digital provides a floppy disk to set the drives

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-30 Thread Don
OK, When the Blue High Point BIOS screen shows, Does your Drive show " Mode 4" ? If not then your Hard Drive is not configured correctly.Western Digital Drives work very well with the BP6 mainboard when set properly. Western Digital provides a floppy disk to set the drives in UDMA66 mode. M

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-30 Thread Philippe Wautelet
Hi, To answer your questions about my configuration: ABIT BP6 with HPT366 onboard 2xCel466 (not overclocked) 64MB SDRAM PC100 ATI Mach64 (quite old) 3DFx Voodoo2 Ethernet PCI 10/100 Realtek 8139 SB PCI 128 Modem ISA 56k CDROM Actima 50x on hda CDRW Creative 2224 on hdc WD136BA 7200rpm on hde Ph

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Don
What kind of main board are you using? Don On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that bit about it working in 7.0 but > > not in 7.1. There have been reports (on this list and others) about > > some brands of hard drives NOT being up to th

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Don
If you are using a Western Digital drive, make sure that the Mode is set to UDMA66. They provide a floppy disk to do that with. If this is not done the drive can behave differently. This system is using two 7200RPM WD drives on the UDMA66 IDE3 port. Don On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: >

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > > > Is anybody getting substantially better than 142 mb/sec and 22 > > mb/sec from 'hdparm -tT' ?? ATA/33 is capable of that 'cause > > those are my numbers, and one (slave) HHD's a WD Caviar 8.4. ... > > and is it wort

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: > "Jim P." wrote: > > > > I saved and printed your message and the next time I decide to abuse myself > > with 7.1 I'll give that a try. I have reinstalled 7.0 because I got tired > > of not having a working cd... > > > > Jim > > > The information that it works

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Xuejun Liu
I am wondering what the normal speed for UDMA66? I just got about 14M/second, as fast as UDMA33. >From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem >Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:09:30 -0800 >

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
Philippe Wautelet wrote: > Civileme wrote: > > > 7.0 didn't really support UDMA/66 without a lot of tweaking. My guess is > > that your WD drive cannot do UDMA66 even though it was advertised to do > > such. > > Not impossible, but my drive doesn't work with any DMA mode in 7.1 (and > it worked

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Norman Carver
Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dmesg > > cat /proc/pci > > lspcidrake > > cat /etc/fstab (AFTER you try installing 7.1 again) > > And I am very curious also why /dev/scd0 would work. CDRWs are > normally assigned /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1 Could THAT > be it? Is your CDRW acting like ON

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that bit about it working in 7.0 but > > not in 7.1. There have been reports (on this list and others) about > > some brands of hard drives NOT being up to the UDMA 66 spec, and > > causing problems, especial

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > Those things are done automagically in 7.1 But with some drives > supermount can interfere with burning. Basically, your drive > MUST be unmounted to burn. Most drives unmount with a complaint > when supermount is active and complain again when the burner >

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > I saved and printed your message and the next time I decide to abuse myself > with 7.1 I'll give that a try. I have reinstalled 7.0 because I got tired > of not having a working cd... > Well, the IDE CDRW setup should be the same in 7.0. If it's not working then

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > Is anybody getting substantially better than 142 mb/sec and 22 > mb/sec from 'hdparm -tT' ?? ATA/33 is capable of that 'cause > those are my numbers, and one (slave) HHD's a WD Caviar 8.4. ... > and is it worth all that hoops y'all seem to be jumpin thru

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Torben Tretau
Hi! Anyone has successful installed UDMA 66 with 7.1 and HPT366 on his BP6? My problem starts when installer makes ide-scsi detection it hangs.. any workaround to disable detecting? (export mode doesn`t work..) bye, Torben

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Philippe Wautelet
Civileme wrote: > 7.0 didn't really support UDMA/66 without a lot of tweaking. My guess is > that your WD drive cannot do UDMA66 even though it was advertised to do > such. Not impossible, but my drive doesn't work with any DMA mode in 7.1 (and it worked in 7.0 and in MSWindows). Another quest

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: > > I don't have the optimisations enabledI have tried everything to get it > going...it's been frusterating to the nth degreeI have a standard > floppy...like I said it works fine in 7.0 after doing the fix (cd /dev && rm > cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom) no problems at all...

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Jim P.
I don't have the optimisations enabledI have tried everything to get it going...it's been frusterating to the nth degreeI have a standard floppy...like I said it works fine in 7.0 after doing the fix (cd /dev && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom) no problems at allbut install 7.1 and it ref

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: > > I saved and printed your message and the next time I decide to abuse myself > with 7.1 I'll give that a try. I have reinstalled 7.0 because I got tired > of not having a working cd... > > Jim > The information that it works in 7.0 and doesn't in 7.1 is suggestive of somethi

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
m: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:28 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem > > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: > IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have been seeking help > with a cdrom/burner for over a month...and it still doesn't workmandrake > support has been 0 help as wellI keep saying it's a bug...but seems that > word is only associated with mickeysoftbut

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have been seeking help > with a cdrom/burner for over a month...and it still doesn't workmandrake > support has been 0 help as wellI keep saying it's a bug...but seems that > word is only associated with mi

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Breno F Basilio
What types of problems are we talking about Jim? I haven´t had any problems at all with my HDs, CDROM, and burner under 7.0 or 7.1. My HDs are UDMA66 and the CDs are regular IDEs. Let me know, maybe I can help. B On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Jim P.
IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have been seeking help with a cdrom/burner for over a month...and it still doesn't workmandrake support has been 0 help as wellI keep saying it's a bug...but seems that word is only associated with mickeysoftbut it's a bug they NEED to

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Matt Stegman
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > Further, it's said that you have to have a special cable for DMA > transfers. I don't know this from personal experience, again, not > having the hardware to test. > John You do. An ATA/66 cable has the same 40 pins as any other IDE cable, but h

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post said > the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0. > > Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with > 7.0 but does not with 7.1. > Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
Norvell Spearman wrote: > In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post said > the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0. > > Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with > 7.0 but does not with 7.1. > > ---Norvell Spearman > > John Aldrich w

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
Philippe Wautelet wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use > DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with > Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade > my bios. Nothing changed. After that, I comp

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Norvell Spearman
In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post said the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0. Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with 7.0 but does not with 7.1. ---Norvell Spearman John Aldrich wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wr

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use > DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with > Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade > my bios. Nothing changed. After that,

[expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Philippe Wautelet
Hi, I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade my bios. Nothing changed. After that, I compiled another kernel (2.3.45). Same pr