Have an Albatron with Via Southbridge Sata onboard. Install goes fine if I load sata_via mod and s98klin mod, but on reboot it apparently doesn't add the manually loaded mods to the conf cause it panics trying to mount the root disk (/dev/sda1 - rieser) and I never see anything about the SATA drive. I know there must be a kernel line for this, but I have no clue what it might be. Thankx.
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 kevin@trotmans.com wrote:
Have an Albatron with Via Southbridge Sata onboard. Install goes fine if I load sata_via mod and s98klin mod, but on reboot it apparently doesn't add the manually loaded mods to the conf cause it panics trying to mount the root disk (/dev/sda1 - rieser) and I never see anything about the SATA drive. I know there must be a kernel line for this, but I have no clue what it might be.
I don't think you can load those as modules, make them part of the kernel and see if that helps. The disk needs to function for module loading to begin, but you don't have disk function yet if it's a module! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
* Mike Rosing <eresrch@eskimo.com> [040229 18:32]:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 kevin@trotmans.com wrote:
Have an Albatron with Via Southbridge Sata onboard. Install goes fine if I load sata_via mod and s98klin mod, but on reboot it apparently doesn't add the manually loaded mods to the conf cause it panics trying to mount the root disk (/dev/sda1 - rieser) and I never see anything about the SATA drive. I know there must be a kernel line for this, but I have no clue what it might be.
I don't think you can load those as modules, make them part of the kernel and see if that helps. The disk needs to function for module loading to begin, but you don't have disk function yet if it's a module!
You need these modulkes in your initrd: sata_via, libata, scsi_mod, sd_mod and reiserfs Then your /-filesystem should be mountable (At least it works here for three different machines) If you loaded the modules manually (only sata_via, it loads the others) then YaST doesn't include3 these modules automatically. Just add them to /etc/sysconfig/kernel: INITRD_MODULES="sata_via libata scsi_mod sd_mod reiserfs"
Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
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Hello,
Just add them to /etc/sysconfig/kernel:
INITRD_MODULES="sata_via libata scsi_mod sd_mod reiserfs"
This works on my system but only with INITRD_MODULES="libata sata_via scsi_mod sd_mod reiserfs" because sata_via needs libata loaded before. Now i have a performance problem: hdparm -tT /dev/sda Timing buffered disk reads: 22 MB in 3.10 seconds = 7.10 MB/sec A bit slow!? My (P)ATA drive gets ~ 22 MB/sec What can i do? Thanks for your help! Regards, Thomas
* Thomas F?cking <suse@foecking.de> [040302 13:46]:
Hello,
Just add them to /etc/sysconfig/kernel:
INITRD_MODULES="sata_via libata scsi_mod sd_mod reiserfs"
This works on my system but only with INITRD_MODULES="libata sata_via scsi_mod sd_mod reiserfs" because sata_via needs libata loaded before.
works for me with that line: INITRD_MODULES="reiserfs sata_via scsi_mod sd_mod libata"
Now i have a performance problem:
hdparm -tT /dev/sda Timing buffered disk reads: 22 MB in 3.10 seconds = 7.10 MB/sec
A bit slow!? My (P)ATA drive gets ~ 22 MB/sec
What can i do?
Missing DMA? (I get around 40 MB/s) mozart:~ # hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 118 MB in 3.02 seconds = 39.09 MB/sec mozart:~ #
Thanks for your help!
Regards, Thomas
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Hi,
Missing DMA?
hdparm -d 1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: operation not supported on SCSI disks How to activate DMA on a SATA Drive? I am coping 1GB from (P)ATA Drive to SATA Drive and the CPU loads 80-100%. The Rate is ~ 10MB/sec. top's output is: CPU-Load: Program: 38.6% mc 20.1% suseplugger I think the SATA Drive is in PIO mode or something like this. I don't have expirience with SCSI. How can a tune the SATA Drive? Thanks! Thomas
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