Hey Bill, I spoke abit to soon though regarding that stability.. After booting up X and running Azerues and kde, my system stalled and locked. However it lasted much longer then Jeff's version. I'm running the DFI Lanparty with an Athlon 4400. I also have the following setup 2x300gb seagate drives 7200.8 in a raid0 format with ext3 2x400gb seagate drives 7200.9 again in a raid0 format with ext3 and lspci gives me the following :: 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2) 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3) On Monday 27 March 2006 11:08 am, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:14:35PM -0500, Matt Heler wrote: > > Using Bill's original patch I was able to boot up perfectly with adma > > support enabled on my workstation. Even after several stress tests ( > > tar -cf /dev/null . , and dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null ), everything seems > > to be a-ok. However when I tried the sata_nv.c file that you sent to > > Bill, I kept on getting hardlocks, and thus was unable to stress test > > your version. > > > > Also for note, I heve not received any of the timeout problems reported > > by Bill. Nor have I had any latency problems with adma enabled. > > Matt, > > Nice to see some value falling out of this sata_nv thread. Did you see > latency problems before enabling ADMA? > > Would you provide some specifics on your setup? > > Which motherboard, #CPUs, BIOS revision, kernel, MD/LVM2/fs? > > On two of my Tyan S2895 machines, including the one that I'm using for > testing, lspci says: > > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2) > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev > f3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller > (rev f3) > > and dmidecode says: > > BIOS Information > Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. > Version: 2004Q3 > Release Date: 10/12/2005 > > The other, where I first had lost tick problems, says: > > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2) > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev > a3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller > (rev a3) > > BIOS Information > Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. > Version: 2004Q3 > Release Date: 06/07/2005 > > > Thanks, > > Bill - : 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
