On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:29:24AM +1000, mdevin wrote:
> Actually, some more digging shows some new support in the 2.5 kernel for
> the VIA VT8235 chipset which is on my mobo. It seems that udma6 can
> then be enabled by passing 'ide0=ata66' to the kernel at boot time.
> (Note that I do have the drive connected using an 80 pin ATA133 cable).
I am running 2.4.18 Debian stock kernel. I just (remotely) rebooted
the box with "ide0=ata66", and it still tests at 5.3 Mb per second.
OK, I checked: 2.4.19 doesn't have the 8235 support yet, 2.4.20rc2
does.
I was hesitant to upgrade to a kernel that doesn't come with my
distribution, but I guess I have to. It's not that I'm not competent
to compile my own kernel, it's that it is such a hassle, that I'd
rather not. (It starts with recompiling the thing, rebooting a couple
of times to see what works and what doesn't, Then all of ALSA has to
be recompiled etc etc... I'm told all this is just half an hour work
(if all goes right first time), but it always ends up "more" (because
it doesn't go right first time) ....)
Roger.
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