From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spencer Tuttle Subject: Re: Marvell MV88SX6041 SATA Driver PIO4 Mode Not DMA Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:08:43 -0700 Message-ID: <4374D01B.9010706@fastmail.fm> References: <1131648518.26701.247242836@webmail.messagingengine.com> <437471D0.3090404@pobox.com> <20051111121447.GQ3699@suse.de> <4374A4AC.8010007@pobox.com> <20051111142905.GV3699@suse.de> <20051111143850.GX3699@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.contentwatch.com ([64.90.206.132]:6796 "EHLO mail.contentwatch.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbVKKRIY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:08:24 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.contentwatch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B89A4DAC1 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:08:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from mail.contentwatch.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.contentwatch.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26160-20 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:08:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.1.1.143] (vlxgw.contentwatch.com [64.90.206.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.contentwatch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB944E94 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:08:20 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <20051111143850.GX3699@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >>>>>Spencer Tuttle wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>I have just compiled the new 2.6.14 kernel from the gentoo-sources tree. >>>>>> >>>>>>I can access the drives just fine, but it seems really slow. Here is >>>>>>the dmesg output when I load the kernel module >>>>> >>>>>That's expected, since the driver in 2.6.14 only does PIO mode. >>>>> >>>>>Try 2.6.14-gitN which supports EDMA. Ok I will seek this out and compile it. Its a bummer i didn't ask sooner, before i tried to create a software raid 5 array, (which took 5 days to build) :-) >>>> >>>> >>>>Did you see these as well: >>>> >>>>blk_queue_max_hw_segments: set to minimum 1 Yes I did, they appeared 32 times for each drive. Thank You,