Hi all,
the HPT 1.25 bios seems to be buggy and detects the 80 gig maxtors as 13 gigs.
Kernel 2.4.9 reports the highpoint controller as dma disabled by bios and the
drives get max. 2 megabytes/s speeds. Is there a way to get dma on? hdparm -d1
just reports operation not permitted.
Please CC me!
Thanks!
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-Janne
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > the HPT 1.25 bios seems to be buggy and detects the 80 gig maxtors as 13 gigs.
>
> there's no reason you have to use the bios's detection.
> but this looks more like "someone turned off LBA" problem.
Yea I found a beta 1.28 bios and that fixed the detection problem, but it
still does not count as enabled in Linux.
> > Kernel 2.4.9 reports the highpoint controller as dma disabled by bios and the
> > drives get max. 2 megabytes/s speeds. Is there a way to get dma on? hdparm -d1
> > just reports operation not permitted.
>
> autodma.
It is of course on. And I cannot turn it on as you usually can with
hdparm. Maybe the problem lies on the machine - it is an old
dell poweredge dual p2 with an eisa-chipset. I tried all 3 PCI-slots it
had but no difference. Maybe the dell bios does not enable it or
does not support busmastering or something alike?
Usually the HPT366 driver reports ide3: <addresses etc> but this time it
only reports ide3: disabled by bios.
Thanks for your help!
/Janne