Re: Intel-based motherboard

[Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>]

Cole Nielsen wrote:

> Hello -=-
>   I know it's considered poor practice to just post to a list but I 
> have a question which I and others have been unable to solve relating 
> to the chipset on my motherboard.
>   I have an Intel 845PE-based motherboard in my Dell 4550 purchased 
> last May. I've been running LINUX on it for about 2 months now and I 
> like it a lot. Interestingly enough, even with DMA enabled, 
> performance from the HD, CD-ROM, and CD-RW sucks! For example... 
> writing a 650M CD takes nearly 45 minutes on my 40x burner. Copying a 
> few hundred meg of data from one partition to another on the HD took 
> nearly an hour and a half. When I try to watch a DivX movie or one of 
> the movies for q3 or Diablo 2, they skip and get out of synch. I've 
> included some information about my system which may be of help.
>
> ==== /sbin/lspci ====
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host 
> Bridge (rev 11)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP 
> Bridge (rev 11)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 01)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 81)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
>
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB ICH4 IDE (rev 01)
>
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB SMBus (rev 01)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 
> MX420] (rev a3)
> 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video 
> Capture (rev 11)
> 02:00.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio 
> Capture (rev 11)
> 02:01.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp 
> Modem (rev 01)
> 02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 
> (rev 0a)
> 02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port 
> (rev 0a)
> 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>
> ==== dmesg | grep ide ====
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (ide0(3,1)) for (ide0(3,1))
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> bttv0: registered device video0
>
> Dell Dimension 4550
> 512M RAM
> 3.06Ghz
> 80G HD
> SuSE 8.1
> 50x CD-ROM
> 40x52x40 burner
>
>
> again, I post to the list as a last resort because if I can't get this 
> working, I'll have to return to using m$ software. Thanks in advance 
> for any help!
>
> Cole Nielsen
>

  What are the ide settings on the various devices?  Can we have the 
output of hdparm -vi, hdparm -d, and hdparm -t on each device?  What 
kernel are you using?  My guess is you are are not using dma.  Try the 
latest 2.4.22pre kernel.

-- 
Once you have their hardware. Never give it back.
(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>