On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:42:09AM -0800, 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)
Looks good. > > 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. But what do you mean by "not supported"? Sure your devices are working so where is the problem? > I found that if I tried to do "hdparm -d1" without it, nothing happened. > > Are you using that chipset, or some other disk controller? No, I don't use any additional controller. phil:~% /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7006 (rev 25) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7007 (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7408 (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7409 (rev 07) 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 740b (rev 03) My board is a MSI-K7pro and it works great. Phil
