Re: IDE UDMA/ATA Suckage, or something else?

Paul G. Allen
2001-08-14T02:25:10Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > You must disable IDE prefetch on the current versions of the AMD MP
> > > chipset, you may also need to enable "noapic".
> >
> > Unless I can do it with the kernel, I have no choice. The BIOS has no
> > prefetch setting (which, BTW, I had disabled on all my A7V133 boards).
> > So what about problems with non MP boards?
>
> Well its entirely possible that the BIOS vendor did the right thing and
> made sure you couldnt turn it on. How does your box behave with noapic ?

I haven't had a chance to try it yet. I'll let the lists know when I do.

PGA

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