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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:31 pm    Post subject: DMA not working on a SATA disk with ICH8 Reply with quote

Hi everyone,

I tried reading posts about the subject but none seemed to fit or help. I have a Core2 Duo system (IBM ThinkCentre 55M) with a 80GB SATA drive. Using hdparm /dev/hda I get:
Code:
/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 156312576, start = 0

and using hdparm -i /dev/hda I get:
Code:
/dev/hda:

 Model=ST3808110AS 41N3267 LEN, FwRev=3.AAK, SerialNo=9LR3LSRH
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156312576
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 ATA/ATAPI-7

 * signifies the current active mode


If I try to run hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda I receive the error:
Code:
/dev/hda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)


Perhaps my kernel confuguration is not right for my hardware. Running lspci I get:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)


(If needed I can post my kernel configuration but it may be quite long). What should be the right kernel configuration to enable DMA?
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hdparm/libata (for SATA drives) currently do not support setting DMA mode on SATA drives.
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, I didn't know that :oops:
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

but you're not using the SATA drivers in your kernel

when using sata, your HD would be known as /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda (with a recent kernel, that is)
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm.. I must have omti it somehow. Then I suggest to check whether you have compiled in or as a module proper driver for your motherboard/chipset.
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, all the things I have in my kernel are compiled in so I don't know why it's not /dev/sda. Here is the configuration of the kernel (I removed the commented lines to make is shorter).
Code:
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y
CONFIG_DMI=y
CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0

CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE=y

CONFIG_BLOCK=y

CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq"

CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
CONFIG_MCORE2=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2
CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_P4THERMAL=y
CONFIG_VM86=y
CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y
CONFIG_X86_MSR=y
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y

CONFIG_EDD=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC0000000
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC=y
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_IRQBALANCE=y
CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
CONFIG_HZ=1000
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO=y
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y

CONFIG_PM=y

CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y
CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=2001
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER=y



CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y
CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS=y
CONFIG_PCIEAER=y
CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y
CONFIG_HT_IRQ=y
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y



CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y

CONFIG_NET=y

CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y
CONFIG_NET_KEY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_TCP_CONG="cubic"

CONFIG_NETFILTER=y

CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_LOG=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE=y
CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_SCTP=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_AMANDA=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_FTP=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_H323=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IRC=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_NETBIOS_NS=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PPTP=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SIP=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TFTP=y
CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CLASSIFY=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NFQUEUE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NFLOG=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_COMMENT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNBYTES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_DCCP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_DSCP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ESP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HELPER=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LENGTH=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MAC=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_POLICY=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_REALM=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_SCTP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATISTIC=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STRING=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HASHLIMIT=y

CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_IPRANGE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_AH=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ADDRTYPE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_SAME=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_PROTO_GRE=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_FTP=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_IRC=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_TFTP=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_AMANDA=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_PPTP=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_H323=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_SIP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPFILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARP_MANGLE=y




CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y



CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y



CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO=y

CONFIG_PNP=y

CONFIG_PNPACPI=y

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=y
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8


CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y

CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_JMICRON=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y

CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_SCSI_TGT=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y


CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y


CONFIG_ATA=y
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
CONFIG_SATA_INTEL_COMBINED=y
CONFIG_PATA_JMICRON=y
CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y
CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y



CONFIG_IEEE1394=y



CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=y

CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y



CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y



CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y

CONFIG_NET_TULIP=y
CONFIG_TULIP=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y

CONFIG_TIGON3=y




CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_PPP_MPPE=y
CONFIG_PPPOE=y
CONFIG_SLHC=y



CONFIG_INPUT=y

CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1280
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y

CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y

CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_SERIO_LIBPS2=y

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y

CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=4

CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_PRINTER=y


CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_HPET=y
CONFIG_HPET_MMAP=y








CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="1280x1024@60"
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y

CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

CONFIG_LOGO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y
CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=y


CONFIG_SOUND=y



CONFIG_HID=y

CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y
CONFIG_USB=y

CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y

CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y

CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y


CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y

CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y


CONFIG_USB_MON=y













CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=y

CONFIG_NET_DMA=y

CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=y


CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y

CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y

CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y

CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y

CONFIG_CRAMFS=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE=3

CONFIG_SMB_FS=y

CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION=y

CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8=y
CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y



CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT=y


CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y


CONFIG_BITREVERSE=y
CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=y
CONFIG_CRC16=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_FSM=y
CONFIG_PLIST=y
CONFIG_IOMAP_COPY=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y
CONFIG_X86_SMP=y
CONFIG_X86_HT=y
CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT=y
CONFIG_X86_TRAMPOLINE=y
CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR=y
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did all of things here
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_SATA
fail?

I'll check my kernel config later when I get home, since I have ICH-8R chipset; the only difference is that I have an IDE drive connected to SATA controller by IDE slot (maybe it is somehow emulated?).
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the link, but there isn't much over there except for describing a working kernel configuration (which seems to match my configuration). Now that I think of it, it is strange that I get /dev/hda and not /dev/sda. Any insight will be much welcome.
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

try to disable the old ATA/IDE options in your kernel

and update your kernel commandline, and your /etc/fstab to point to /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After removing the whole of ATA/IDE support I *do* get my drive as /dev/sda. How do I know now if I have dma on? I emerged sdparm but the output is a little cryptic:
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    /dev/sda: ATA       ST3808110AS       3.AA
    Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0  DPOFUA=0
Read write error recovery [rw] mode page [PS=0]:
  AWRE        1  Automatic write reallocation enabled
  ARRE        1  Automatic read reallocation enabled
  TB          0  Transfer block
  RC          0  Read continuous
   0: error recovery may cause delays
   1: transfer data without waiting for error recovery
  EER         0  Enable early recovery
  PER         0  Post error
   0: do not post recovered errors
   1: report recovered errors
  DTE         0  Data terminate on error
  DCR         0  Disable correction
  RRC         0  Read retry count
  COR_S       0  Correction span (obsolete)
  HOC         0  Head offset count (obsolete)
  DSOC        0  Data strobe offset count (obsolete)
  WRC         0  Write retry count
  RTL         0  Recovery time limit (ms)
Caching (SBC) [ca] mode page [PS=0]:
  IC          0  Initiator control
   0: disk uses own adaptive caching algorithm
   1: disk caching algorithm controlled by NCS or CCS
  ABPF        0  Abort pre-fetch
  CAP         0  Caching analysis permitted
  DISC        0  Discontinuity
   0: pre-fetch truncated or wrapped at time discontinuity
   1: pre-fetch continues across time discontinuity
  SIZE        0  Size enable
   0: number of cache segments (NCS) controls cache segmentation
   1: the cache segment size (CCS) controls cache segmentation
  WCE         1  Write cache enable
  MF          0  Multiplication factor
   0: MIPF and MAPF specify blocks
   1: multiply MIPF and MAPF by blocks in read command
  RCD         0  Read cache disable
  DRRP        0  Demand read retention priority
   0: treat requested and other data equally
   1: replace requested data before other data
   15: replace other data before requested data
  WRP         0  Write retention priority
   0: treat requested and other data equally
   1: replace requested data before other data
   15: replace other data before requested data
  DPTL        0  Disable pre-fetch transfer length
  MIPF        0  Minimum pre-fetch
  MAPF        0  Maximum pre-fetch
  MAPFC       0  Maximum pre-fetch ceiling
  FSW         0  Force sequential write
  LBCSS       0  Logical block cache segment size
   0: CSS unit is bytes; 1: CSS unit is blocks
  DRA         0  Disable read ahead
  NV_DIS      0  Non-volatile cache disable
  NCS         0  Number of cache segments
  CSS         0  Cache segment size
Control [co] mode page [PS=0]:
  TST         0  Task set type
   0: lu maintains one task set for all I_T nexuses
   1: lu maintains separate task sets for each I_T nexus
  TMF_ONLY    0  Task management functions only
  D_SENSE     0  Descriptor format sense data
  GLTSD       1  Global logging target save disable
  RLEC        0  Report log exception condition
  QAM         0  Queue algorithm modifier
   0: restricted re-ordering; 1: unrestricted
  QERR        0  Queue error management
   0: only affected task gets CC; 1: affected tasks aborted
   3: affected tasks aborted on same I_T nexus
  RAC         0  Report a check
  UA_INTLCK   0  Unit attention interlocks control
   0: unit attention cleared with check condition status
   2: unit attention not cleared with check condition status
   3: as 2 plus ua on busy, task set full or reservation conflict
  SWP         0  Software write protect
  ATO         0  Application tag owner
  TAS         0  Task aborted status
   0: tasks aborted without response to app client
   1: any other I_T nexuses receive task aborted
  AUTOLOAD    0  Autoload mode
   0: medium loaded for full access;
   1: loaded for medium auxiliary access only
   2: medium shall not be loaded
  BTP        -1  Busy timeout period (100us)
  ESTCT      30  Extended self test completion time (sec)
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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you do a hdparm -t /dev/sda and get more than ~10 MB/s you are using DMA, and, if I suspect right, all SATA use DMA "by design", you don't need to enable it.

(when I test IDE HDs without DMA they usually mark between 2 and 8 MB/s)
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