Ryan Phillips - Latest comments on Inspiron 9300

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sakserv [Visitor] — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:14:59 +0000

anyone found a fix yet, this is driving me crazy, 32 mb throughput from SATA!, getting over 50 on my ide drives in my server, that just isn't right!!

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Ryan Phillips [Member] — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:24:01 +0000

Make sure SATA is compiled into the kernel and the ata_piix driver.

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Andrew Kraut [Visitor] — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:21:15 +0000

On this same model, I just did a stage 3 2005.0 install and with both genkernel and a manually configured kernel, after a reboot, the kernel doesn't detect the hard drive, just the cdrom. libata is compiled into the kernel as well as support for the onboard controller card. Any suggestions?

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Max [Visitor] — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:14:02 +0000

hi, hdparm can't go with SATA and SCSI because is only for IDE devices.
Perhaps ins in the kernel libsata(old) the drive can emulate in IDE /dev/hd*.

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Ryan Phillips [Member] — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:34:52 +0000

The Inspiron 9300's bios doesn't allow for changing the SATA options.

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Ivan Yosifov [Visitor] — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:46:22 +0000

I had a somewhat similar problem some time ago. My solution is

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1875619#1889792

I hope this helps.

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Ryan Phillips [Member] — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:39:24 +0000

I'm using ata_piix. hdparm 6.1 says that DMA is only 16 bit on /dev/sda (which is the harddrive), and 16 bit on /dev/sr0 which is the CDRW device. hdparm returns HDIO_GETGEO as an ipnappropraite ioctl for the CDRW device.

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Daniel Drake [Member] — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:16:38 +0000

Which SATA drivers are you using? The true SATA drivers (libata) have DMA on and do not work any other way.