IDE Patch (fwd)
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Greetings Matthew,
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted. I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations. So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
respectfully
Quoted 35 lines · Matthew Hunter
Quoted 7 lines · Andre Hedrick
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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:17:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Rob Radez <[email protected]>
To: Andre Hedrick <[email protected]>
Subject: IDE PatchQuoted 7 lines
Hi,
I'm using your ide.2.4.16.12102001 patch with a Promise PDC20269 controller and a Maxtor 160GB hard drive on 2.4.17, and I just wanted to tell you that it's working great so far.Thanks for all the great code,
Rob RadezThought I would take the opportunity to ditto this privately. I'm using your IDE patch with 2.4.17, on a system with a three-drive RAID5 and a two-drive RAID0. I gained about 3 mb/s on two drives individually. I haven't rebooted to compare raid performance (though I know it is faster -- just not by how much).
It's been rock solid, no stability issues.
Looks like great work.
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I also vote for inclusion in 2.4. It runs on several workstations and a file-server using Software RAID-5 on 3 IBM IDE disk running EXT3 (formerly ReiserFS - but it's speed sucks on RAID5 IDE devices ??) - no problems!
From: Andre Hedrick <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: IDE Patch (fwd)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:12:14 -0800 (PST)
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Greetings Matthew,
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted. I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations. So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
respectfully
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Matthew Hunter wrote:
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Quoted 2 lines · Rene Rebe
I also vote for inclusion in 2.4.
I spent a couple of hours beating the crap out of it, and none actually came out. I'd vote for prompt inclusion in 2.5, and inclusion in 2.4.x-pre1 when it's shown to be stable.
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Quoted 8 lines · Andrew Morton
Quoted 2 lines · Rene Rebe
I also vote for inclusion in 2.4.
I spent a couple of hours beating the crap out of it, and none actually came out. I'd vote for prompt inclusion in 2.5, and inclusion in 2.4.x-pre1 when it's shown to be stable.
I vote for doing the reverse. The 2.4 codebase is the more tested, the 2.5 is a forward-port. Given all the related block changes still settling out in 2.5, changing IDE might make block layer/IDE issues hard to sort out. Let's see it in the next 2.4.x-pre1.
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Quoted 4 lines · Andre Hedrick
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted. I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations. So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
Just to avoid overperfectness... ;))
Has anyone succeeded in fixing the sis5513 driver to work with ATA100 chips? I get heavy disk corruption with SiS730S chipset mobo (ASUS A7S-VM).
Best regards,
- Jussi Laako
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Re: IDE Patch SIS ATA100
In reply to Andre HedrickQuoted 9 lines · Jussi Laako
Quoted 4 lines · Andre Hedrick
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted. I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations. So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
Just to avoid overperfectness... ;))
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Has anyone succeeded in fixing the sis5513 driver to work with ATA100 chips? I get heavy disk corruption with SiS730S chipset mobo (ASUS A7S-VM).
Best regards,
- Jussi Laako
I'm on it. Had some intermittent successes and thought to have a correct patch until today (one 2002 week with ATA100)... But I had a bugreport today and same dma problems on my machine after a BIOS flashing and a new drive in the system. Currently in heavy debugging.
PB: chip seems to init itself correctly on extended periods of time on my config! Makes testing rather difficult :-(
For example, with the *exact* same code this evening I had:
- a system freeze just after /sbin/init load,
- a crash after ext3 fs errors before init,
- a somewhat working boot (some weird library errors caused "ip" to not work),
- a fully functionnal system (no error reported, some file copies, reboot with ide=nodma, e2fsck -f -> no error).
If you have a system you can test on without fear of breaking things I'll send you patches as soon as they'll work again on my config. Better if you want to proof-read the code :
http://gyver.homeip.net/sis5513/index.html
LB.
Re: IDE Patch SIS ATA100
In reply to Andre HedrickQuoted 7 lines · Lionel Bouton
Jussi Laako wrote:
I'm on it. Had some intermittent successes and thought to have a correct patch until today (one 2002 week with ATA100)... But I had a bugreport today and same dma problems on my machine after a BIOS flashing and a new drive in the system. Currently in heavy debugging.
Debugging ended. Patch cleaned from debugging code submitted to Andre.
After numerous bug reports and google search I understood that the problem is an *hardware* one on my board.
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PB: chip seems to init itself correctly on extended periods of time on my config! Makes testing rather difficult :-(
For example, with the *exact* same code this evening I had:
- a system freeze just after/sbin/initload,
- a crash after ext3 fs errors before init,
- a somewhat working boot (some weird library errors caused "ip" to not work),
- a fully functionnal system (no error reported, some file copies, reboot with ide=nodma, e2fsck -f -> no error).
Should have been 100% sure this was an hardware pb at this time. Non deterministic behaviour in my code could not have had any other source.
People encountering problems using SIS chipsets should try the driver available here:
http://gyver.homeip.net/sis5513/index.html
LB.
Quoted 3 lines · Andre Hedrick
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted. I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations. So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
Andre's ide.2.4.16.12102001.patch works great here. I strongly recommend it be considered for 2.5 if not also for 2.4.
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So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
Andre's ide.2.4.16.12102001.patch works great here. I strongly recommend it be considered for 2.5 if not also for 2.4.
I wish it were an easy 2.4 one - its the first thing that fixed my HPT370 DMA timeouts too.
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Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:12:14AM -0800, Andre
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Quoted 1 line · Hedrick
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it
will not be adopted.
Quoted 1 line
I know the driver is stable and effectively
perfect in operations.
Quoted 1 line
So I do not understand the total ignore I receive
about it.
Andre's ide.2.4.16.12102001.patch works great here. I strongly recommend
it be considered for 2.5 if not also for 2.4.
Cyrix486/66 Slackware 8.0 12Megs Ram works great with linux 2.4.16 + ide + rml-preemptible_patch. hard drive is Seagate 6.4Gb
I have used this combination before and no problems at all.
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the -ac tree had the patch in until at least 2.4.13-ac, which I run on my laptop because it is the latest kernel that flushes the ide-drive writecache at shutdown. Before that I had regular filesystem corruptions...
-Marcel
Quoted 11 lines · Dan Chen
Quoted 3 lines · Andre Hedrick
Thanks for the feedback, but lkml needs it or it will not be adopted. I know the driver is stable and effectively perfect in operations. So I do not understand the total ignore I receive about it.
Andre's ide.2.4.16.12102001.patch works great here. I strongly recommend it be considered for 2.5 if not also for 2.4.
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which I run on my laptop because it is the latest kernel that flushes the ide-drive writecache at shutdown. Before that I had regular filesystem corruptions...
For certain laptops with IBM 2.5" drives its basically mandatory. Any laptops that needed the Win98 update (or were shipped with the win98 update) for this.
Current sysvinit/initscripts has a sort of unreliable workaround for this, which doesn't always help.