Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-10 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 10 May 2007 02:24, Ladislav Slezak wrote: > The cause is the transition to libata IDE drivers. Libata currently doesn't > support DMA mode change. See > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264681#c14 for details. Thanks for the fedback Ladislav. I had similar error messages l

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-10 Thread Ladislav Slezak
Rajko M. wrote: [...] > You said that they are IDE drives on older 500 MHz system, so hdparm should > be > right application. I'm not familiar with hdparm internals so I ran test on my > older computer with 10.3 alpha 1 and it shows the same error, although I used > > symlink hda that points

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-05-07 at 20:42 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > I never tried to find out exact reasons for the one side grounding. Loop currents. They would form 40 independent loops, and a loop in a variable magnetic field, such as induced by the varyin

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-07 Thread Sid Boyce
Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007 09:43, Sid Boyce wrote: Rajko M. wrote: ... The speed test hdparm -t /dev/hda shows speed of 55 MB/s for ATA 100 drive, which seems to be right. For details on transfer rates http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT01170100 The differen

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-07 Thread Donn Washburn
Rajko M. wrote: Grounds commoned on motherboard side will show shorts on the other end too. Wires are to short to see 2 wire lengths resistance with DMV, so it will appear as short on both ends. They had to use existing ground pins on 40 pins connector and they needed 40 extra wires between e

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-07 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 07 May 2007 09:43, Sid Boyce wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: ... > > The speed test > > hdparm -t /dev/hda > > shows speed of 55 MB/s for ATA 100 drive, which seems to be right. For > > details on transfer rates > > http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT01170100 > > > > The

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-07 Thread Sid Boyce
Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 06 May 2007 17:51, Donn Washburn wrote: Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 06 May 2007 13:15, Donn Washburn wrote: Has anyone noticed this problem? It maybe a problem with hdparm dealing with the sda drive and not hda Can you give output of hdparm that is making trouble to y

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-06 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 06 May 2007 17:51, Donn Washburn wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: > > On Sunday 06 May 2007 13:15, Donn Washburn wrote: > >> Has anyone noticed this problem? It maybe a problem with hdparm dealing > >> with the sda drive and not hda > > > > Can you give output of hdparm that is making trouble to

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-06 Thread Sid Boyce
Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 06 May 2007 13:15, Donn Washburn wrote: Has anyone noticed this problem? It maybe a problem with hdparm dealing with the sda drive and not hda Can you give output of hdparm that is making trouble to you. The transfer rate of 66 interface is lower than the 66 MB/s.

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

2007-05-06 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 06 May 2007 13:15, Donn Washburn wrote: > Has anyone noticed this problem?  It maybe a problem with hdparm dealing > with the sda drive and not hda Can you give output of hdparm that is making trouble to you. The transfer rate of 66 interface is lower than the 66 MB/s. How much lower