Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

2000-11-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
d setup.S." Are you positive for modules too... Regardless of the fact you have displayed, some of us prefer to clobber it to insure that it stays zero until access. Last thing you want is an unstatic static when we go to spin a disk for data. Just how warm and fuzzy do you fell if

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

2000-11-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > >Are you positive for modules too... > > Yes. I know this, I am being punchy. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: difference between kernel and bios report on drive status

2000-11-25 Thread Andre Hedrick
M is always fully utilized (except if no swap), > UDMA33? And how come the 2nd is faster than the first one. > > I hope this is not a kernel bug. > > Fei > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: PROBLEM: (U)DMA, dma_intr status=0x51, error=0x84

2000-11-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
safely support that transfer rate. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-11-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
working to get IBM to change the method of doing this to make it sane, but its not now. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IDE-driver not generalized enough ?

2000-11-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
> Regards, > Bjorn > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux D

Re: test-10 tulip "eth0 timed out" (smp, heavy IDE use)

2000-11-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Patch: 2.4.0-test11ac4 version of pci and isapnp device ID'spatch

2000-11-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
hat it omits the files that have gained the > same ID tables in Alan's ac4 release). The patch is FTPable from: > > >ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/device_control/kernel/pci_id_tables-2.4.0-test11-ac4.patch4.gz > Hey Alan, are we now sorting sub-id's? Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanog

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
o unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
risk buffer underruns. > A lockup however is not to be expected :-( It is completely expected bacause of teh active timing changes done on this chipset design. The timings are for ATA DMA and not ATAPI. You should expect a 100% hardlock on mistimed IO access. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
"COMMERIAL INTENT", somewhere around section 7 paragraph 3. I have defined the terms that are acceptable to a binary module that incorporates GPL code of MINE! This I DEFINE THE TERMS, and they are module only! Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linu

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
never update or publish the updates, and YOU have not legal authority to force me to send you SHIT! Does that make it real clear or not? Later, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
T RAID. THIS WILL ROYALLY SCREW EVERYBODY! HAHAHAHA. Now do not go dorking things that I am trying to make make public. This is really pissing me off! Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Fasttrak Final Point....

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
mode and not do DMAing then it will work. Also it goes for any device that does ATAPI DMA and not ATA DMA. There is a difference! Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: 2.4.0-test11 ext2 fs corruption

2000-11-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
re talking FSC and ATA so what are the details? And where are we poking into the driver. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-03 Thread Andre Hedrick
ide-tape.c:1413: parse error before `case' > ide-tape.c:1424: warning: function returns address of local variable make[2]: > *** [ide-tape.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory > `/src/2.4-test11/drivers/ide' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ide] Error 2 make[1]: > Leaving directory `/s

Re: Re[2]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
houldn't) >make a difference... Then WHAT ON THE EARTH??? Mike, have you been able to recall >what BIOS option turned DMA on? Shall I write to Andre Hedrick directly? Or is there >a mailing-list smth. like linux-ide? > > > Now, the question is, can we trust a hard drive manufact

Re: 2.2.17 + ide patches + 61gb ibm disc = problem

2000-12-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
nly > drives on the ports. Shouldn't you be setting the jumpers on both drives > into the Single Drive (default) settings? I always thought the Master and > Slave positions are to be used only when connecting two drives on one port. > > hda and hdc should be the devices. This is

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
this chipset. This seems like a really bad thing, considering > that I can gain no access to the drives currently using this driver. > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > --James Lamanna > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Re: PCI clock... Something somewhere (can't find now) made me think that > > my MB is setting the PCI clock synchronously with the CPU clock, i.e. it > > is 25MHz in my case... Any ideas where I could see it?:-) > > I found it - it's in

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
, > so someone else might also want to check... > > -Udo. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timp

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
nd the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
kernels had, have been fixed in the latest > versions. > > What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA. WHOA That was more than 3 years ago but that is not to day. I have been working with them internally to mak

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Did you set and mount a "/var/shm" point? On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. > > As others pointed out, it's probably something related to

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
roller. There are two different BIOS cores for each design. Linux cleanly supports the BIOS cores know as "Ultra" and not the ones know as "Fasttrak". Because there are different PCI config space setups for each core then we have a problem unless we go and poke around for storage cla

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
e point (I hope..) > So I guess I'm stuck with loading their proprietary module whenever I want > to use the drive Yep, until they realize that their simple IP is nothing, and want to export the raid calls to the Linux Raid Engine, you are "stuck". > But thanks for the clar

RASTER driver for Xerox Printers

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Who has one or knows how to kick one to life? Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please re

Re: New CD-R high capacity drive specs are coming. (fwd)

2000-12-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
, but if they attemp CDRW then it will die. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, M Sweger wrote: > > Hi, > >See the article below. > > I just read that the specs are out for three different types of CD-R

FS Corruption Again, with known cause, and solution...

2000-12-08 Thread Andre Hedrick
y do not even like to show how fugly it is! Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Big IDE HD unclipping and IBM drive

2000-12-08 Thread Andre Hedrick
t; and not the true size, and even trying to set the correct size with > WIN_SET_MAX fails. Is there a way to use this combination (Bios, HD, > Linux)? Yep you have to use code/patches that are not in the standard kernel. Which kernel are you using? Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Gr

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
This has the missing ide-pci code from 2.2. It stablized my BP6 on the HPT core. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development diff -urN linux-2.4.0-t12-7-pristine/drivers/ide/cs5530.c linux-2.4.0-t12-7/drivers/ide/cs5530.c --- linux

Re: Linux 2.2.18 almost...

2000-12-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
against the files are identical. /linux/arch/i386/Makefile arch/i386/vmlinux.lds: arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S FORCE $(CPP) -C -P -I$(HPATH) -imacros $(HPATH)/asm-i386/page_offset.h -Ui386 arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S >arch/i386/vmlinux.lds All it is is a leftover file Cheers, Andre H

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

2000-12-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
that is what it orginally was defined by me. This is UNIX, and to quote one of HPA's signatures, "unix gives you enough rope to hang yourself" My personal favorite: You are going to shoot yourself in the head, aim carefully! How well you aim determines if you get a second c

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
e latest out there...test12-pre7. Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
. test12-pre8 and 2.2.18 is out and I do not chase BIOS revs in general. I work off the originals HPT366 1.07 this is because the lowest comman variable must be addressed and hope that the new stuff will not fail the backwards compatablity issue. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Gro

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
rnel releases) since I mentioned this > before and it doesn't look like it's made it in, and I haven't seen any more > comments on it in the list archives, so I'm bringing it up again in case it > just got forgotten about somewhere along the line.. > > As I remember, Andre Hedrick had a

Re: Promise PDC20295 support?

2000-09-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
ibe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&q

Re: i815e related

2000-09-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Is the 82801BA Contoller Hub (ICH2) supported (would I get ATA-100 > > working)? > > It will work. I dont know if you'll get ATA100 with 2.4test. You wont with > 2.2 Yes ICH2 is native. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy

Re: Promise PDC20295 support?

2000-09-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Lars Gaarden wrote: > The datasheet I have (from a tomshardware.com review) says 20295. > > The motherboard manual only says "Promise Ultra DMA/100". Okay what is the pci device id number reported by "tomshardware"? Cheers, Andre

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
Set the block size, but set it back when finished Matt is this SCSI or ATA? I ask because this sounds like DIAG stuff that I am working on. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
report the capacity to prevent the overright. Just new stuff that has not hit the masses yet. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://w

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Basically you can de-stroke a drive with what you let the OS/FS report. >Once this is done there is no way any FS can get to the stuff beyond what >it knows about. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "de-stroke" he

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
tal Lame Answers, okay :-) Can you tell me how to get/do this request? (seriously). read(32 sectors, beginning at LBA 50) How can one do this through the FS-layer? Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
s going to happen. I guess nobody looked at it seriously, so here it is again. * Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:36:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Future Linux fun, PARTIES and BEER On Tue, 4

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
you get to the other 15GB if you can legally get there? Your method above can not do it, can it? Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
t crash the kernel by lying to it, do the partition tables remain in tack? If the fall appart because of false boundaries we have a bigger mess. To prevent this you have to get under the driver to the actual IO point. Will have to finish in the morning (after sun up), sorry. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Th

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
. > user, but also the faked one so that he sees what's happening. Possibly > allowing him to enable the full capacity say by using the kernel command > line. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: [PATCH] Fix for I-Opener IDE problems

2000-09-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
lags? All you have to do is tell it that the flash exists. hdx=flash will set the flag. If this does not work then I-Opener will be required to disclose a constant unique signature in the MTD IDENTIFY page to know to look for the second device. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubsc

Re: Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats

2000-10-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
an aquaintance at Microsoft of the potential problem that they could see. Only because I respect that person (at MS) did I even consider discussing the issue. If they want to take a jesture of kindness and twist it to imply I am blackmailing them, Bill's view of the world is very sinical (sp).

Re: hdparm -d 1 fail test9-pre8

2000-10-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
5/63, UDMA(33) > hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA > > please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], as [EMAIL PROTECTED] is nothing but a > mail black-hole. (provider must be trying to trim his customer base:) > > -Mike > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.9.8: Fix IDE...

2000-10-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
t;init_chipset) > + pciirq = d->init_chipset(dev, d->name); > + else > + printk(KERN_INFO "%s standard IDE storage device >detected\n", d->name); > + } else > +

Re: hdparm -d 1 fail test9-pre8

2000-10-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
u provide a "diff -u " of dmesg, output, with, and without the > change below? > > Jeff > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http:

Please explain the change..

2000-10-03 Thread Andre Hedrick
Jeff, What is the significance of the changes in ide-pci.c? What vender does something different that requires this change? Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!?

2000-10-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
ers to a driver with Ultra160 Adaptec support. > > Dave Madsen ---dcm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

Re: IDE problems 2.4.0-t9p8 and later

2000-10-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
; appeared to be misunderstood as broken changes wrt PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_IDE > (the leading 0x0101 in dev->class). The crucial point however is the > "|5" on the trailing byte. > So, may I ask if there was some good reason for this change? > What have I missed? > Co

Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

2000-09-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
ecisely the kind of compat stuff which should be fixed up in > the arch-specific PCI support code. Martin, cross-platform party on PCI stuff Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: IDE problems 2.4.0-t9p8 and later

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
the possible exception that he needs with be worked out. Some time later today I will publish a patch and post it on kerne.org Also I will get in touch with LT about me placing the patch in testing. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: good book on kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
ow the code completely. > tx, > rajesh balan If there was such a book, it would be an e-book. Because development is faster than a printing press. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Re: failure to burn CDs under 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
-RAM is looking like it will be showcased at Comdex in the DVD-RAM Pavilion. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: failure to burn CDs under 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
=0,0,0 -eject -data cd_image ISO9660_PATH=/home/iso9660 # cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -data $ISO9660_PATH/cd_image This is my script series for a 4X burn Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
chell Hicks > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [preview] VIA v3.6 and AMD v1.2 IDE drivers

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
un. > > Of course, I'm interested in all success/failure stories. > > Thanks. > > -- > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: Bug in "ide-pci.c"

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
no guarantee that the first condition >will be executed > before the second. As progif is set to 0 before this block of code, the second test >will always > be true if it is executed prior to the first. if () are serial in test. > > > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy

Re: Bug in "ide-pci.c"

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
d how these get optimized then you point is noted. Since I was an astronomer and +/- one AU (93,000,000 miles) is critical, feel free to check the rules for order. Then you can call my bluff. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy FYI, I have a new baby-girl and thus the diaper-humor

Re: No SCSI burning problem (was: Bug in "ide-pci.c")

2000-10-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
rrow it down? Is it random data getting written, or > data from other locations? If it is ide-scsi then it is device select bug that is know but never made it in the kernel. I have the fix. Plextor is one on the list that fails without it. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe

Re: No SCSI burning problem (was: Bug in "ide-pci.c")

2000-10-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
set_bit (PC_DMA_IN_PROGRESS, >flags); It is a macro issue and ordering task-registers. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Quantum lct08 & Ultra66 on GigaByte GA-BX2000+

2000-10-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
in my previous messages which (I hope) have been stored in archive > > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: No SCSI burning problem (was: Bug in "ide-pci.c")

2000-10-07 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > append "hdd=ide-scsi" append "hdd=scsi" is better. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please r

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
M drives will we see even disk IO approach 100mB/s. I just wish people could understand that these are max-transfer rates and that drives do not exist that can run kind of IO in a sustained rate. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
will be needed with the new SerialATA stuff, due to the single ended nature of the beasties. I can only guess that IO will approach orders of magnitude faster than what is known today. I can say no more than that it will be fast. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
hats is a whole > different universe. . Recall that I told you that there is a physical limit of getting stuff off the drives. The platter density is to low and the rpm's are to slow to get there yet. Remember it took second genration ATA66 drives to fill the ATA33 bandwidth. Cheers, Andre

Re: dvd mounting troubles

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
a UDF issue and not DVD-ATAPI. Since my two DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM ATAPI now work fine. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

MAX iso9660 size?

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
Is there a limit? I keep getting barfs on an iso9960 image 4,592,353,280 of this size. Basically I am burning DVD's at 4.7GB tests before patching the kernel before 2.4 for expanded DVD support. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: MAX iso9660 size?

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
nded DVD support. > > You should be burning these disks UDF formatted But the original DVD was an iso9660 image, also where are tools for doing UDF? Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: MAX iso9660 size?

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
nded DVD support. > > You should be burning these disks UDF formatted This is DVD-RAM and I can dd' raw from dvdrom to dvdram with silly things like 'dd ibs=512 obs=2048 keyword=notrunc if=/dev/hdf of=/dev/hde' But my md5sums do not match but it is a valid bootable dvd-ram disk. Cheer

Re: dvd mounting troubles

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
ed by a successful): > > Oct 9 14:09:38 sasami kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) > Oct 9 14:09:40 sasami kernel: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) If I do this under ext2 it works like a charm. I can write just like a disk to my dvd-ram atapi. I would tend to finger udf

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
ts 80-wire cable detection > mechanism. If you ignore byte93, which is where the IBM drive tells the > system what it thinks about the cable, the system will enable UDMA66. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:43:33AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Also I need to adjust the rules for "ignore byte93" because the the > > various methods that are being supported. > > Yes, it would be nice if we

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy diff -urN linux-2.4.0-t10-1-pristine/drivers/ide/ide-features.c linux-2.4.0-t10-1.smsc/drivers/ide/ide-features.c --- linux-2.4.0-t10-1-pristine/drivers/ide/ide-features.c Thu Aug 3 16:07:42 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-t10-1.smsc/drivers/ide/ide-features.c

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. &g

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
t > #%patch151 -p1 > ... Should I send RedHat an unpatch for 2.4? Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

2000-10-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Bob, it does help if you send the output ... my ESP is down today. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: FW: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

2000-10-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Oct 11 12:20:07 sis620 kernel:[] [] Oct 11 12:20:07 sis620 kernel: Code: 8b 40 0c 83 f8 10 0f 87 e7 00 00 00 ff 24 85 5c e4 23 c0 8b This is the kind of stuff that needs to be sent and a kysnoops if possible. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
, it seems reasonable, too. Hi Mark, This is the stuff that is not clearly drafted the shews. You need the stuff I am forwarding to get the twist. Less the kernel list. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] Rewritten drivers/sbus/[audio,char]/Makefile

2000-10-13 Thread Andre Hedrick
id mine Makefile. Neither your or I have the time to dork with Makefiles, and Bart understands them. Be thankful, because the script rules of these puppies are worth a bottle of bayer(tm). Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
e actual record part in a bit (and this kernel i know for a fact has > scsi generic compiled in)... thanks for the help guys Please let everyone know if it works, the additions you got from me are the atapi-direct-write. This works for the other media, but unknown for cd-rw yet. Cheers, Andre

Re: now that NFS V3 is in 2.2.18pre, could we *please* add theide-patch

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
ltimately. NO, I would take them. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
could be used for booting would require the linking or inclusion of of non-open binaries that must be executed once the release of INT13/INT19 are completed from the bios bootstrapping. We are looking at something that has to be kick started long before execve("/sbin/init"...);system(&q

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
was going to be a storage solution, why create something that does not conform to T10/T13 rules. But then we have the beloved MTD's. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

(Re: Why no HPT370 RAID Support?) Promise FasTrak, AMI HyperDisk

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
ies be added to Linux? Thanks for > your help. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
code to load that was in a GPL C file, the other is having a binary-image that is attached/linked to a kernel. Lastly if this if never going to be a device that is needed until the completion of the kernel launch, then it is a DGD, 'don't give a damn'. Because we can insert a stripping probe and con

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
he new drop and burn standard that is in the works, the burning engin will be in the device and remove the burden of support form the OS. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
This will be fun when it is released. Imagine direct read/write access to DVD regardless of filesystems. It should also do CD-RW's, but not tested. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
-charge the elevator!! One catch, these tests require a native ATA-passthough and that will not be included until 2.5. It is completely stable with the tested data-phases. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
the sweet spots are on a given disk are and make a record. We whould reload the profile of the drive at INIT. Will explain more later, I have my two-year old in my lap asleep. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
am doing direct access at the IO level. This is underneath the driver. This is in the realm of bit-banging but with sanity. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pl

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:21:00AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Expand 'traces' ... O-SCOPE analyizer? > > > > Insert a ring buffer into the disk sort entry point. Add a userland process &g

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
other day). Okay, I got some feedback from a friend in the industry. Drive profiling will make waves, but getting the drive makers to profile for linux is the way to go. Thoughts? Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

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