[ltp] T43 report

[Eric Van Buggenhaut]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:16:16PM -0500, morpheus wrote:
> 
> On Mar 17, 2005 5:26 PM, Jeff Lessem wrote:
> >Note:  The 80GB Fujitsu drive is SATA, so I used the Intel ICH SATA
> >driver, and the drive is detected as /dev/sda.  The DVD writer is
> >/dev/hdc and uses the normal PIIX IDE driver.  Without the SATA driver
> >the hard disk is detected as /dev/hda, but runs degraded with no DMA.
> 
> Interesting...I have a t42p with 60GB drive.  How can I tell if I am running degraded and should be using the Intel ICH SATA driver? 
> 
> hdparm -i gives me the following.  Seems udma5 is enabled...
> 
> Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6DA, SerialNo=MRH453M4H2HZ0B
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7877kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117210240
>  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=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:
> 
>  * signifies the current active mode

I have the same disk:

/dev/hda:

 Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6DA, SerialNo=MRH453M4H3JS5B
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7877kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117210240
 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=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: 

 * signifies the current active mode

I have MultSect=off though. How do you turn it on ? What is its utility ?

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