On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:29, Parag Warudkar wrote: > Funny situation - I cannot figure what my root device is. Earlier without > the patch it was /dev/sda3 and now I try everything (hda3, hdb3, hdc3, > hdd3, sda3, sdb3...) but it panics - not able to mount rootfs. Never mind - I am dumb enough to not realize I needed SCSI Disk in built or as modules copied over to proper place :) It boots but I don't think DMA is in effect on the CDROM drive though - (I get 3Mb/s transfer speeds from it. LS of a 1500 file directory is too slow). dmesg says ata2 configured for UDMA/33 but doesn't seem like it has actually. Memory: 2065588k/2087756k available (2495k kernel code, 21676k reserved, 722k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) libata version 1.20 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05-ac7 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f09 84:6023 85:7469 86:3e09 87:6023 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 153356490 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : ata_piix ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0210 83:4011 84:4000 85:0000 86:0001 87:4000 88:0407 ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2(0): applying bridge limits ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33 scsi1 : ata_piix EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Hard disk is fine - gives around 31 Mb/S. Parag - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html