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> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Ronald Verlaan;

> The disks are probably preset for UDMA-66. and there is no 'auto-switch'
> in the protocol. :-(

> The best linux is doing in kernels 2.2.9 and later is UDMA-33.  Get the
> drive makers software to switch this down to UDMA-33, and they'll do
> fairly well, or should.  I do about 13 m/s on the primary, and 8 m/s on
> the secondary with a VIA chipset here. 2.2.10-ac12 kernel.  TYAN S1590S,
> 400 mhz AMD K6-etc-etc.

> For the WD drives, its 'WDATA66' which will toggle the flash options.
> The drive you are working on must be master on the primary interface
> while you run the utility from a bare dos boot.

> I don't know what the other makers call their utility.

>  RV> Dear all,

>  RV> This weekend I upgraded my pc in order to make if faster.

>  RV> I bought an ASUS P5A mainbord with a AMD K6-2 450 MHz cpu.

>  RV> When I boot my pc the bios recognises /dev/hda and /dev/hdc as
>  RV> U-DMA disks which is correct. However oin linux it does not work:

>  RV> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78,
>  RV> VID=10b9, DID=5229 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs
>  RV> later PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled ide0: PCI_IDE
>  RV> Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA
>  RV> disabled ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)

>  RV> As you can see the IDE controller is unknown.

>  RV> lspci gives me:

>  RV> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev c1)

>  RV> Does anybody know how to make this work?

>  RV> Thanx

>  RV> Ronald Verlaan

>  RV> http://www.casema.net/~ronald
>  RV> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>  RV> ---------- The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury.  Due
>  RV> north of the center we find the South End.  This is not to be
>  RV> confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the
>  RV> South End.  North of the South End is East Boston and southwest
>  RV> of East Boston is the North End.

> Cheers, Gene
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> This weekend I upgraded my pc in order to make if faster.

> I bought an ASUS P5A mainbord with a AMD K6-2 450 MHz cpu.

> When I boot my pc the bios recognises /dev/hda and /dev/hdc as U-DMA disks
> which is correct. However oin linux it does not work:

> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled
> ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled
> ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)

> As you can see the IDE controller is unknown.

> lspci gives me:

> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev c1)

> Does anybody know how to make this work?

> Thanx

> Ronald Verlaan

> http://www.casema.net/~ronald
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury.  Due north of the
> center we find the South End.  This is not to be confused with South
> Boston which lies directly east from the South End.  North of the South
> End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End.