Re: [Sheflug] DMA errors on hda

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Richard Lowe wrote:

> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio

> hda: 40011300 sectors (20486 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=2490/255/63, UDMA(33)

BTW, given the size (20G), I would've thought that that's a reasonably new
hd and therefore is capable of something better than UDMA33? hdparm
-i? But on VIA I don't know if you'll even want to try anything above
that:-) But some people say they run UDMA66/100 on VIAs... Feeling
lucky?:-)

> hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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