David Steinberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make > > much difference. > > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode > > $hdparm /dev/hda > > Hi Phil, > > Thanks for replying. From hdparm... > using_dma = 1 (on) > > > because this is what the patch is ment for. I don't need the IDE-patch > > on my Athlon-system, I just do a "hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda" in my boot > > scripts and it works. > > As I understand it, the Viper chipset isn't supported without the patch. > I found that if I tried to do "hdparm -d1" without it, nothing happened. > > Are you using that chipset, or some other disk controller?
I've not seen the Viper explicitly supported except through Hedrick's ATA patch, but using the following: $ hdparm -c1 -d1 -X67 -k1 /dev/hdX Should set you into ATA33 mode, even without the patch. It's been a while since I've used a Viper board every day, but I can look into it a bit. Note that -d1 does not always set 32bit I/0, so forcing -c1 is a good idea, and -k1 is an even better idea, since IDE resets are common, and often go without notifying root or the message log. You should not be able to use -X68 without the patch, since the Viper was never meant to do ATA66 in the first place, and Andre's ATA66 patch is a hack that just /happens/ to work on most boards. -- -=|JP|=- "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
