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Chris> I have attached a 2.6.8-r4 config (cause that's the latest |
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Chris> gentoo-dev-sources available) that I made specifically for your |
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Chris> system, based on the info you have given. |
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Thanks! I will try it today. I noticed right away that there were |
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some differences: |
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- You skipped APIC, and PNP (probably not significant...) |
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- You enabled APM (probably not significant...) |
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- You set Block Dev RAM Size to 8192 (is this significant?) |
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- You set CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="640x480@60" (this is probably |
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significant) |
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- You enabled a logo and FB splash (also probably significant) |
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- You enabled devfs (but not mount on boot. Hmm...) |
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- You enabled profiling |
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Chris> You will need to make sure you build the driver for the |
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Chris> ide-controller statically into your kernel (I have included via |
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Chris> ide). |
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The IDE section of the .config you made for me is identical to the one |
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I am already using. What is the CONFIG_ for the ide-controller? |
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Chris> Also, some advice - I notice your raid array consists of drives |
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Chris> hdc/d/e/f/g This means you must be using master slave |
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Chris> combinations for IDE drives - this will kill your performance, |
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Chris> even with raid5 (infact could make is SLOWER than if you just |
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Chris> had 2 drives in raid1!) |
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Yowza: seven IDE drives means seven IDE busses! I only have three PCI |
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slots, and they would all be full of IDE controllers. Since PCI cards |
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share interrupts, will interrupt latency then become a bottleneck? |
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Thanks very much for the detailed advice! |
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Dave |