Well, it was my own fault, actually.
Somehow I have put one of the connector cables on the wrong way
around, thus pressing that one pin down. A colleague of mine managed
to get it most of the way up again and now the drive works as it's
supposed to. Reads are now up to 57 MB/s. MUCH better.
Now to see if I can salvage my older data from the other disk....
/Martin.
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:33:06 +0100, Martin Moeller
Hmm.... This is very weird. Just tried the disk in my other computer, besides testing it on 3 of 4 IDE controllers in the original machine. Same thing happens. Ergo: Not cable or motherboard problem. When did they start with these half-height sliding pins and what's the deal with them anyway? Is my problem even related to that stupid pin? It's the only visual difference I have to my other IDE disks.
There are issues with both 40 IDE and 80 IDE cables. There are no SATA connectors on the disk (and I have not SATA controllers), so....
Basically, the disk *can* function, but only without DMA enabled, meaning 5-6 MB/s. Not very fun. I suppose I have to have a word with the shop that sold it to me...
/Martin.
PS: I have run tests of the two disks with kernel 2.4.25. Although they *say* they have DMA enabled they either cannot be timed or end up with the above 5-6 MB/s for read tests anyway.
As Madonna once said: I'm going bananas.
PPS: As for Xine, you can get that from packman.links2linux.org if you wish. Should be fine and uncrippled.