Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

Cub69 · 2006-09-09 01:55:31

A built a custom kernel with the IDE components built-in, and the system has finally come up.

My problem now is the disabled DMA for my hard drives -- makes the quite slow.

Sep 8 01:43:49 tv ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 0
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: chipset revision 7
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, disabling DMA.
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: chipset revision 7
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, disabling DMA.
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv hda: Maxtor 53073H4, ATA DISK drive
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv hdb: SAMSUNG SV1022D, ATA DISK drive
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Sep 8 01:43:49 tv Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

Mr Green · 2006-09-09 09:28:13

Mine is slow booting (P5B) not checked dma or hdparm yet....

errr

 hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   3704 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1852.39 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  216 MB in  3.01 seconds =  71.77 MB/sec

Not suer if thats ok nothing to compare it with ....

Are you like in Arch yet....?

mkinitcpio is easy to use .....

Maybe chroot in & fix your problems (what I had to do when swappin' drives!)

Cannot think of anything else

Cub69 · 2006-09-09 12:19:09

Yup, got it to boot. I found a patch for my chipset so it recognizes it and allows DMA.

In comparison to yours above, I'm getting 2Mb/s compared to your 70Mb/s :shock:

The bottom line, the IDE pieces must be compiled in for my system to boot. I still have a boot image from mkinitcpio as well.

I'll find out soon if this little patch fixes my speed issue.

Norm

Cub69 · 2006-09-09 12:33:42

Ok, here it is.. what an improvement for an old hard drive I'm using --

Before kernel patch:

hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   2292 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1146.17 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.57 seconds =   2.80 MB/sec

after:

VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 0
VP_IDE: chipset revision 7
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 53073H4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV1022D, ATA DISK drive

hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   2408 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1203.09 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   92 MB in  3.05 seconds =  30.15 MB/sec

Looks like I'm back on track!

thanks all.
Norm

Mr Green · 2006-09-09 15:21:55

Nice one ... would be interested in how to get dma patch ? ......

Cub69 · 2006-09-09 22:32:24

Here's the patch:

--- linux.orig/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c
+++ linux/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static struct via_isa_bridge {
{ "vt6410", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_6410, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST },
{ "vt8251", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8251, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST },
{ "vt8237", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST },
+ { "vt8237a", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237A, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST },
{ "vt8235", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8235, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST },
{ "vt8233a", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8233A, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 | VIA_BAD_AST },
{ "vt8233c", PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8233C_0, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_100 },

Enjoy.

Norm

Mr Green · 2006-09-10 17:23:00

Ta

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#26 2006-09-09 01:55:31

Re: Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

#27 2006-09-09 09:28:13

Re: Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

#28 2006-09-09 12:19:09

Re: Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

#29 2006-09-09 12:33:42

Re: Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

#30 2006-09-09 15:21:55

Re: Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

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Re: Asus P5VDC-X Motherboard -- can't get it to boot

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