Hello.
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
In contrast, the old IDE pdc202xx_new driver had lots
of problems with CRC errors causing it to disable DMA.
Hm, from my experience it usually falls back to UltraDMA/44 and then the
thing startrt working...
I wasn't able to manually tune it above udma3 without
getting more errors. This isn't sparc64-specific: I've
had similar negative experience with the old IDE Promise
drivers in a PowerMac.
This happens because the "old" driver misses the PLL calibration code.
You may want to try these Albert's patches:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110992452800002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110992471500002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110992490100002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111019238400003&r=1&w=2
It looks like they were never considered for accepting into the kernel
while they succesfully solve this issue. Maybe Albert could try pushing them
into -mm tree once more?
WBR, Sergei
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