Re: hd question

2002-01-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi robert to increase from 4.36mb/sec just set your DMA mode hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc - also check that you ide cable is "good" ?? - get a ata-100-rated 1' cable... ( NOT the 3' cables though it works sometimes ( if you are getting seek/crc errors either your

Re: hd question

2002-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:20:19PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I have a new hd. 'dmesg' says: > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > hdc: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hdc: Maxtor 4D040H2, 39083MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4982/2

Re: hd question

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Epprecht
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi ya anthony no, it was not anthony but me, having hd problems > get a better 80-conductor IDE cable... not the old > cheap 40pin ( 33Mb/sec ) cable... My motherboard is pretty old: ASUS P3B-F. The vendour sayd there's no use to take 80-conductor cable, a

Re: hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony get a better 80-conductor IDE cable... not the old cheap 40pin ( 33Mb/sec ) cable... have fun alvin and turn on dma mode if "mounting it turns it off" hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Robert Epprecht
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 09:20 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: > >> /dev/hdc: >> Timing buffered disk reads: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { >> DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >> hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } >> hdc: dma_i

Re: hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 09:20 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: /dev/hdc: Timing buffered disk reads: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [ ... last

hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Robert Epprecht
I have a new hd. 'dmesg' says: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: Maxtor 4D040H2, 39083MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63, UDMA If I say 'hdparm -t /dev/hdc' (or want to mount it) I get: /dev