Re: UDMA5

["Riccardo Castellani" <r.castellani@usl6.toscana.it>]

I tried booting with "ide0=ata66" kernel parameter to force 80-wires cable 
but nothing.
udma2 is set !

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: "Riccardo Castellani" <r.castellani@usl6.toscana.it>
Cc: "Stefan" <gentoopower@yahoo.de>; <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: UDMA5


> On 9/19/05, Riccardo Castellani <r.castellani@usl6.toscana.it> wrote:
>> I think it's no kernel problem because after immediately POST stage 
>> (before
>> that GRUB is loaded) I see hard disk properties where UDMA is set to 2
>> value. PIO mode is set to 4.
>
> It is still worth to try (Linux VIA IDE driver overrides BIOS UDMA 
> settings,
> it depends only on BIOS doing the cable detection - but you can try 
> booting
> with "ide0=ata66" kernel parameter to force 80-wires cable).
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>
>> To: "Riccardo Castellani" <r.castellani@usl6.toscana.it>
>> Cc: "Stefan" <gentoopower@yahoo.de>; <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: UDMA5
>>
>>
>> > On 9/19/05, Riccardo Castellani <r.castellani@usl6.toscana.it> wrote:
>> >> I run Maxtor MaxPower tool and HD test is ok.
>> >> I didn't see any settings to change UDMA mode.
>> >> I tried to run Knoppix live CD into machine and I had the same result:
>> >> UDMA
>> >> 2*
>> >> I put this disk into another hardware and It worked in UDMA 6 !!!
>> >> What do you think ?
>> >
>> >>>>> Linux version 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com)
>> >>>>> (gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Fri Aug 26 
>> >>>>> 23:27:26
>> >>>>> EDT 2005
>> >
>> > Try with *vanilla* kernel 2.6.13 or 2.6.14-rc1.
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