From: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@xprog.eu>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Limiting DMA speeds for individual IDE drives
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:24:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090908161204.GA3113@gambetta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0909081157520.2653-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:03:48PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Is there any simple way to force the old IDE driver to limit the DMA
> speed for a particular device?
>
> I've got a situation where a drive claims to be capable of supporting
> UDMA/100, but it's in a noisy environment and gets lots of errors at
> that speed. I'd like to limit it to UDMA/66 or even UDMA/33.
>
> The hdparm command should be able to do this but I can't run it until
> the system has booted, by which time a bunch of CRC and possibly other
> errors have already occurred. Ideally it should be possible to limit
> the speed starting as early as device detection, but I can't find any
> way to do it. Is there support for such a thing or will I have to hack
> it in?
Does passing ide=nodma at bootime, and then having init set the DMA at
the right speed, would work?
Regards,
Frederik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 16:03 Limiting DMA speeds for individual IDE drives Alan Stern
2009-09-08 16:24 ` Frederik Deweerdt [this message]
2009-09-08 18:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-09-08 17:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-08 18:18 ` Alan Stern
2009-09-09 6:46 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
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