From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199908092113.XAA00412@piglet.cpu.lu> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 23:13:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Re: Trying a Promise Ultra/66 on powerpc To: drow@false.org cc: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <19990808232621.B352@them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Dan, I'm getting returned mail (user unknown) on Andre's email address. Do you happen to know his new address? On 8 Aug, this message from Daniel Jacobowitz echoed through cyberspace: [Io port mapping funnies] > > This didn't, oddly, stop my card from working. It does, however, make > me lock up hard if I hdparm -i /dev/hda. What is your machine? Any IDE devices onboard? I'm getting lockups myself on hdparm -I and -d1 -X66 (for the Maxtor drive) and at drive identification on bootup with a Quantum Fireball. Weired.... > Oh, if you didn't pick this up, you can make it ide0/1 instead of > ide2/3 by enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD. Yeah, I was just too lazy to enable it, thanks ;-) >> /dev/hde: >> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.60 seconds = 9.70 MB/sec >> Maxtor 91024D4; 10G 7200 RPM, UDMA-2 ie 33 MB/s. > > Eek. I want that :) Yeah, interesting drive, as it is _very_ silent; nothing to do with the usual 7200 RPM stuff, plus it is relatively fast. And affordable ;-) Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]