If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.

Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.

I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
stuff deselected.

BillK


On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:47 +0200, Wayn0 wrote:
> Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what
> >> level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma
> >>
> >> Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4.
> >
> > Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5
> > for some years now without any problems.
>
> Thanks to everybody that's replied so far.
>
> I may have missed something kernel wise but my sata drives are
> registering as hd* and it refuses to switch on dma.
>
> I have no doubt this is a kernel config, just not sure where to look.
> I don't have the laptop with me at the moment so I will post the kernel
> config this evening.
>
> or perhaps somebody knows right off the bat what the problem is and what
> I need to enable and disable.
>
> I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves.
>
>
> Thanks again
>
> Wayn0
>
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William Kenworthy wrote:

If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.

Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.

I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
stuff deselected.

BillK


Cheers,

This is why it's doing my head in. I have a desktop with both sata pata
drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/


I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report
back later.


Thanks again for the help




On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:47 +0200, Wayn0 wrote:

Renat Golubchyk wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com>
wrote:

I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what
level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma

Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4.

Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5
for some years now without any problems.

Thanks to everybody that's replied so far.

I may have missed something kernel wise but my sata drives are
registering as hd* and it refuses to switch on dma.


I have no doubt this is a kernel config, just not sure where to look.
I don't have the laptop with me at the moment so I will post the kernel
config this evening.


or perhaps somebody knows right off the bat what the problem is and what
I need to enable and disable.


I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves.


Thanks again

Wayn0



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On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Wayn0 wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
> > something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.
> >
> > Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
> > in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.
> >
> > I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
> > precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
> > least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
> > stuff deselected.
> >
> > BillK
>
> Cheers,
>
> This is why it's doing my head in. I have a desktop with both sata pata
> drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/
>
> I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report
> back later.

For sata drives use this, not hdparm:

# eix -l sdparm
* sys-apps/sdparm
Available versions:
0.97
0.98
~ 0.99
1.00
1.01
~ 1.02
Homepage: http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
Description: Utility to output and modify parameters on a SCSI
device, like hdparm

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William Kenworthy wrote:

If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.

Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.

I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
stuff deselected.

BillK


Thanks Bill,

removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff sorted it out.

:-)


Wayn0
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BTW, which speed can be treated as "not slow"? hdparm for my SATA SAMSUNG
HD401LJ shows ~60MB/Sec. Is it normal?
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Wayn0 wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
>> If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
>> something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.
>>
>> Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
>> in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.
>>
>> I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
>> precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
>> least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
>> stuff deselected.
>>
>> BillK
>
> Thanks Bill,
>
> removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff sorted it out.
>
> :-)
>
>
> Wayn0

Would you mind posting what speeds you get now? I'm curious myself.

Thanks

Dale

:-) :-)
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I have a Western Digital 250GB SATA-II drive on an NForce4 integrated
SATA-II controller, here are my readings...



hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i dma

******* DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
*udma6



/dev/sda:

*Timing cached reads:** 1646 MB in* 2.00 seconds = 823.19 MB/sec

*Timing buffered disk reads:* 172 MB in* 3.03 seconds =* 56.77 MB/sec



Machine is an Athlon X2 3800+ running Gentoo 2007.0 AMD64



A Western Digital 500GB SATA-II drive, connected through a SATA-I PCI
card on another Gentoo box reports:



hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i dma

******* DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
udma6

*************** DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization



/dev/sda:

*Timing cached reads:** 312 MB in* 2.01 seconds = 155.28 MB/sec

*Timing buffered disk reads:* 162 MB in* 3.02 seconds =* 53.65 MB/sec



The onboard Maxtor 60GB IDE drive reports:



hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma

******* DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5



/dev/hda:

*Timing cached reads:** 312 MB in* 2.01 seconds = 155.17 MB/sec

*Timing buffered disk reads:** 76 MB in* 3.05 seconds =* 24.88 MB/sec



Machine is a Dell PowerEdge 350, PIII server running Gentoo 2007.0 i386.



I'm curious, is your optical drive also SATA? If it's not, then how do
you intend to access it without ATA/ATAPI drivers?



-Hal



Dale wrote:

Wayn0 wrote:


William Kenworthy wrote:


If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.

Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.

I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
stuff deselected.

BillK


Thanks Bill,

removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff sorted it out.

:-)


Wayn0



Would you mind posting what speeds you get now? I'm curious myself.

Thanks

Dale

:-) :-)

On Jan 8, 2008 12:53 AM, Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net> wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what

> level of UDMA is set. *Try this: *hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma
>
> Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4.

Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5

for some years now without any problems.


Cheers,
Renat

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Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *(Einstein)


It was just a guess.* Take it with a grain of salt.
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