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11-15-2002, 05:52 PM
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Brisvegas, Antipodes
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Good news for KT400 users!
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From the 2.4.20-rc2 changelog,
<vojtech@suse.cz>
[PATCH] Add vt8235 support
Hi!
This patch adds support for the vt8235. Marcelo, please apply it to
current 2.4.20 rc. It doesn't break anything, basically adds and entry
to the table of supported devices. Thanks.
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Get the goodies here or from your nearest mirror. |
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11-16-2002, 04:29 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Houston/TX
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Quote:
Originally posted by dnar
Damn, I thrashed the drive with LARGE reads & writes, all was good, then booted to my rescue disk and individually fsck'd all partitions to check for bad blocks. No bad blocks found. I then booted back to my main system, and what do you know? Really poor DMA performance, like hdparm -tT results around 1 - 2 M... Then dma errors galore in the logs...
The disk occasionally "locks" and all system activity comes to a stand still, for around 20 seconds, then it comes back.... 
I re-booted again and it's fine, then again it's bad. It appears that the reliability is dependant on something "magic" at boot time, like a lottery... Weird timming issue maybe? Back to running no DMA until I can find out more...
At least I know the drive is A Ok, no bad blocks... Not happy about no DMA, but at least everything is stable and reliable with no DMA.
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One thing I was readong on is the placement of your drive is very important. Lost page link, but they said placing HD near your power supply gives CRC errors galore from interference on the udma cable. Also, twisted or scrunched udma cables are VERY bad... cable should run straight from motherboard to HD without being compressed or looped for best performance... mabey that'll help you. |
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11-17-2002, 06:08 AM
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Perth, Australia
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Well the drive died big time yesterday, started "banging" like someone was klnocking on the front door... I replaced it with a Seagate 80GB Barracuda today, all is well following a full day of re-installing Linux...
All along, this "new" drive was a problem just waiting to happen...
Aussie - The patch you posted is the one I applied several days ago.
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11-17-2002, 06:59 AM
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Yes, but it's been merged and will be in 2.4.20 when it arrives.
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11-17-2002, 07:03 AM
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Cool.
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11-24-2002, 06:51 PM
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Registered: Oct 2002
Location: spain :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by Aussie
Yes, but it's been merged and will be in 2.4.20 when it arrives.
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look at that mail:
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Originally posted by Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 15:56, Shark wrote:
> Hi, ...
> I was reading the changelog of the latest 2.4.20-rc2 oficial kernel, ...
> I cound't find any changes about the oficial kernel support in it,...
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> Wich your patches, ... (since at least 2.4.19-ac4) this chipsets works perfectly and with the oficial kernel (2.4.19) the sistem always hangs up when writing, ... (so the >2.4.19-ac4 is really more stable than the oficial one for the highpoint ataraid users).
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> I'm writing this mail to your in order to ensure that the oficial 2.4.20 will be the 1st oficial kernel that will work to us.
There are no plans to merge the IDE updates until 2.4.21
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Last edited by sharkyr0lz; 11-24-2002 at 06:53 PM.
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11-24-2002, 07:18 PM
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Alan Cox dosn't maintain the 2.4.x tree, so if Marcello decides to include something then it dosn't matter what AC says.
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