siimage driver status
Quoted 8 lines · Alan Cox
Quoted 3 lines · Wm. Josiah Erikson
hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel reports this on bootup:
I'm running the siimage driver fine with several drives. Your setup is intriguing in that the BIOS has chosen to leave the drives in PIO mode
As an extra datapoint I have very a very similar problem with a WD360 drive and an siimage 3112 PCI controller on a shuttle (via-based) AK31V2.0 motherboard.
The sii3112 interfaces show up as ide0 and ide1 (can that be changed?) using MMIO-DMA/pio. Testing the drive as-is results in ~3.5MB/s transfer rates (via hdparm -t), and attempting to enable DMA via "hdparm -d 1" results in an immediate lockup the next time the drive is accessed.
When I get another chance, I'll probably try the two fixes others in this thread have suggested:
hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hda
and if that still has trouble under load, someone suggested:
echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/ide/hda/settings
Hope this helps.
(I'm not on the list right now, so please cc any replies you want to
make sure I see -- thanks.)
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