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  • From: Wolfgang Scheicher <worf AT sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
  • To: John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>
  • Cc: SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] 2.5.x kernel and NVIDIA_nforce spell
  • Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:30:51 +0200

On Sunday 06 July 2003 16:34, John T Copeland wrote:
> I have tried 2.4.21 also. It supports SATA kind of; ie, it recognizes
> the SATA drives but won't turn on DMA. In fact it won't turn on DMA on
> the PATA drives, and it won't let you turn DMA on with hdparm for any of
> the drives. 2.4.21 does not appear to have "native support" for the
> nforce2 chipset. Also 2.4.21 does not "number" the drives starting with
> the PATA controllers, but with the SATA controllers. IMO 2.4.21 does
> NOT support SATA in a usable manner. Maybe 2.4.22 will.

Did you:
<*> AMD Viper support
"This driver adds explicit support for AMD-7xx and AMD-8111 chips and also
for
the nVidia nForce chip. This allows the kernel to change PIO, DMA and UDMA
speeds and to configure the chip to optimum performance."
dmesg | grep NFORCE

> 2.5.74 has"native support" for the nforce2 chipset. It recognizes it,
> and reports it in dmesg. It turns on DMA for PATA but does not turn DMA
> on for SATA. However, you can turn SATA DMA with hdparm. Also the ide
> controllers are numbered correctly; ie, ide0/ide1 are PATA and ide2/ide3
> are SATA.

hmmm...
dmesg | grep NFORCE
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
(kernel 2.4.21 vanilla, no binary nforce driver)

> Incidentally other compiles fail also. Spells glibc 2.3.2 and gcc 3.3
> both failed, but compiled with 2.4.20.

but 2.4.20 won't compile with gcc 3.3 - but that's a different story

Worf





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