[vdr] Re: Maxtor 160GB and XFS

["Ralf Spitzauer" <ralf@spitzauer.de>]

> Matthias Fechner wrote:
> ...
> I have tried it with 2.4.18, all patches goes successfully in the
> kernel-source, now disktest is running.

Also the LBA48-patch?
>
> But i have problems with disktest, if i run it, it will write the
> first 100MB in about a half second, than it will write 1 MB per
> second(for about 4 seconds) than it will write a lot of MB(in one
> second) and so on.

Which disktest do you use? Try the one fom Carsten Koch in the Maxtor 160 GB
Thread (02.03.2002)

>
> Maybe the problem is the ide-controller, the chipset is a kt266a and
> if i boot the computer the kernel says: i cannot found irq set
> pci=biosirq

In my vdr-box (Asus cubx-e) it works on both controller bx-chipset and
promise.
I don´t know if there is a problem with the kt266a


Ralf