From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Becker Subject: Re: IDE drives Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:18:13 -0500 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040324231813.GT5419@cs.duke.edu> References: <20040324223356.GA3473@cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org " Take a look at the boot messages -- I suspect Xen hasn't got a " proper driver for your IDE chipset and is falling back to PIO. Yep, you are right. Xenolinux says PIO. I'll add this chipset to my todo list. ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ServerWorks CSB5: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79 ServerWorks CSB5: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in! ServerWorks CSB5: chipset revision 147 ServerWorks CSB5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0700-0x0707, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0708-0x070f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive hdc: LG CD-ROM CRN-8245B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hda: 78156288 sectors (40016 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63 PIO (slow!) " Are you sure you're using the same part of the disk? most likely not. I ran the scsi writes on two different hosts just as a sanity check, and not as a rigorous check. Both were the same hardware and may even have had other users on them. It was close enough to be labeled 'the same' for my purposes. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click