sata udma problems

spooge · 05-11-2005, 07:42 PM

finnaly installed sata drives
noticed file tranfers, video, etc, have been laggin.

been reading my a.. off on this and cant get udma enabled
with 2.4.30/2.6.11.8 kernels.
i've read so many sata/dma udam posts and compiled kernels 8x

2.4.30: i enabled or compiled into kernel just about dma scsi setting i could find.
hdparm says no to dma

2.6.11.8: almost did the same but get a vfs error. ( thinkin mabe i need a difrent
lilo call for the drive(according to the error( and yes reiserfs is enabled))).
i used the 2.6.10 kernel w/no problems without sata

mb: abit ic7-g
hd: 2 maxtor sata 100gb

with this setup, am i better off w/2.6 kernel?
does lilo need a difrent call from hda to something else?
am i retarded ? <--- nothing against the emapaired

thanks

edit:
/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 0
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 0
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 0
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 0
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controll
(rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridg
(rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Contr
ler (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97
udio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35GL [Quadro FX 3000]
ev a1)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Cont
ller (PHY/Link)
03:03.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARai
Controller (rev 02)
03:07.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)

AltF4 · 05-11-2005, 07:46 PM

Assuming your ATA hdd is /dev/sda and you have enabled SATA native mode in BIOS

try this: "hdparm -d1 /dev/sda"

if it doesn't work post the output if "hdparm -I /dev/sda"

spooge · 05-11-2005, 07:55 PM

thanks alt for the reply
here's the results

root@nemo:/home/peter# hdparm -d1 /dev/sda
/dev/sda: No such device or address

root@nemo:/home/peter# hdparm -I /dev/sda
/dev/sda: No such device or address

i'm missing something/doin something wrong

edit: obviosly this with 2.4.30 kernel
i searched for all dma/sci settings and enabled from what i read on this kernel compile

otchie1 · 05-13-2005, 04:55 PM

That just indicates that you do not have a hard drive labelled /dev/sda. type

Code:

df -h

to get a listing of all the mounted devices that you have and try to work out which one is your sata by size.

Then repeat the hdparm command but with the correct /dev/xxx name.

spooge · 07-21-2005, 09:03 PM

so after compile I can...
edit fstab, change mounted hda#s and hdb#s to sda#s and sdb#s ?

results from another box, same setup:

Code:

root@nemo:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              73G  2.8G   66G   5% /
/dev/hda3              36G   33M   34G   1% /home
/dev/hdb1              37G  413M   35G   2% /mnt/bak
/dev/hdb2              37G  5.7G   30G  17% /mnt/m5

Sorry for the late reply
been off my rocker for the last 2 months
My wife Died in May on our 20th.