[coreboot] is multi-mode important in sata/ide land, and in particular on ck804?

[Jeremy Jackson]

I just can't tell you how exciting it is to have my SATA ports working!

That said, have you tried "hdparm -m16 /dev/sda"  maybe it Just
Works(tm) ?

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:12 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> Now that I've got all sata ports working on the s2891, bonnie++ tells me that
> the disks are much slower under coreboot than under the proprietary bios.
> Compare
> 
>   http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/s2891/s2891-20080421-cb-bonnie++
> 
> and
> 
>   http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/s2891/s2891-20080421-prop-bonnie++
> 
> Under the proprietary bios bonnie++ is about twice as fast as under coreboot.
> 
> When comparing hdparm output, I found that under coreboot none of the drives
> have multi mode enabled.
> 
> coreboot:
> 
> [    0.000000] ata3.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48
> 
> proprietary:
> 
> [   54.523384] ata3.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48

> 
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