From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 9 9:12: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wedgev.com (cm57-70.liwest.at [212.33.57.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF8137B404 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cipher (cipher.home [10.0.0.2]) by wedgev.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g09HBV219112; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:11:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bernhard.valenti@gmx.net) Message-ID: <005101c19930$adae5d50$0200000a@cipher> From: "bernhard valenti" To: , "Nils Holland" Cc: "Matthew Dillon" , References: <200201091635.g09GZdm98854@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:11:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems Nils Holland wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon stood up and spoke: > > > I'm CCing Soren to make sure he sees this. > > > > > > This is good news! > > > > It indeed is! However, I'm doing some more testing before I say that > > disabling IDE Prefetch along with using Soren's 686B patch is the ultimate > > solution. > > Hmm, the BIOS must do more that just toggle prefetch, since the ATA > driver explicitly turns *on* prefetch :) > > > As I have said on multiple purposes, I guess my mainboard's BIOS is a > > little more messed up than what is supposed to be standard ;-) This can > > also be seen by the fact that I need to put some light load on my hard disk > > in order to get an acceptably smoothly-moving picture from my TV capture > > card (though Soren's fix has acceptably fixed this problem by now, which I > > really appreciate!) i have the same problem with my TV card, it doesnt only happen with HD activity, but also when building a port on a nfs mounted ports tree(so only network activity). and i think that i had the same problem when using a board with intel chipset. > Indeed, but we really should figure out what that problem is all about. > What exact make and model is that board and the TV tuner ?? I'll see > if I can get ahold of a semilar setup somehow... my card is a miro pctv(bt848) with temic pal tuner, mainboard is a abit kt7-raid. regards, bernhard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message