Subject: Re: pciide performance on alpha
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/12/1999 11:53:23
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:46:53 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> The problem here is that he is getting the same bad performances with a
> Promise Ultra/33, where the same board with the same driver in a PC flies ...
> Maybe there's a problem at a upper level (mainbus/pci bridge) ?
> A lot of parameter seems uninitialised as well in the standart PCI header
> (latency being one).
I think I remember someone else mentioning that the PCI Latency Timer wasn't
initialized properly by the firmware on some PC164 models...
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>