Re: siimage driver status

[Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:11, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> I have two drives (WD Raptors) on my A7N8X. I don't see any errors, even 
> after writing 9GB of data to the drive (after I've done an hdparm -X66 
> -d1 /dev/hd[x]), but it still boots up in pio mode. 
> Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices 
> to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using 
> 2.4.21-rc6-ac1
> Thanks!
> 	-Josiah
> 
> 
> This issue was reported by at least 3 People here on the list (including 
> me) with different 21-rcX kernels. Seems noone really cared :-(
> 
> I hope, this issue now get's addressed.
> btw. I could speed up my Transfer-Rate from 1.7MB/s to 55MB/s by setting
> hdparm -d1 -X66 on my two native SATA-Drives.

I think people care. Andre said he was working on a fix for the Seagate
drives some time back. It does seem that all BIOSs leave SATA drives in
PIO mode. That may be a bios bug really rather than a linux bug. But if
you put the hdparm somewhere early in boot you should be ok, as a
temporary workaround.