Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:11:29 +0100 From: "bernhard valenti" <bernhard.valenti@gmx.net> To: <sos@freebsd.dk>, "Nils Holland" <nils@tisys.org> Cc: "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) Message-ID: <005101c19930$adae5d50$0200000a@cipher> References: <200201091635.g09GZdm98854@freebsd.dk>
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> 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
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