Fsys.atapi: It works!

Fsys.atapi v4.25G works on my FUJITSU/Siemens LIFEBOOK B-2175 with Intel
82440MX BusMaster IDE controller.

However, it reports “Generic IDE” on bootstrap.
How to make sure it uses the hardware to maximum?

Tony.

Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:

Fsys.atapi v4.25G works on my FUJITSU/Siemens LIFEBOOK B-2175 with Intel
82440MX BusMaster IDE controller.

However, it reports “Generic IDE” on bootstrap.
How to make sure it uses the hardware to maximum?

Can you post the output from “show_pci -v”?

On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:58:31 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

Can you post the output from “show_pci -v”?
Here it is.

Tony.

As it is now I get
“cp -V large-file /dev/null”
at the ~4150 kb/s.

On a test-bench with VIA 82C586A/B (according to Fsys.atapi’s report on
bootstrap) - the speed is ~3 times higher - ~11000 kb/s. And this is with
a crappy HDD there.

In my notebook I’ve got the Toshiba’s MK2023GAS (4500rpm).

Tony.

WinXP reports that my TOSHIBA MK2023GAS is operated on UDMA 2.

Tony.

Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:

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On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:58:31 +0400, Kevin Chiles <> kchiles@qnx.com> > wrote:
Can you post the output from “show_pci -v”?
Here it is.

Your laptop is ancient :slight_smile: The driver doesn’t have the 0x7199 device id
in it’s supported list, so it will only use PIO mode. I just grabed the
docs from the Intel site and it looks like it should be compatible with
PIIX4. I can send you an experimental version if you like. It may work…

On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:43:55 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

Your laptop is ancient > :slight_smile: > The driver doesn’t have the 0x7199 device id
in it’s supported list, so it will only use PIO mode. I just grabed the
docs from the Intel site and it looks like it should be compatible with
PIIX4. I can send you an experimental version if you like. It may
work…

I’m ready and willing!
:slight_smile:

Tony.

On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:43:55 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

I can send you an experimental version if you like. It may work…
It really rocks!

Now “cp -V large_file /dev/null” goes at some 18800 kb/s.
The Krten’s “sysmon” shows that ~40% eats Fsys and only ~4% for Fsys.atapi.
With the official version it was reversed - ~50% ate Fsys.atapi and ~3%
had Fsys.

Thanks a lot!

Tony.

On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:43:55 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

The driver doesn’t have the 0x7199 device id in it’s supported list, so
it will only use PIO mode. I just grabed the docs from the Intel site
and it looks like it should be compatible with PIIX4. I can send you an
experimental version if you like. It may work…
Any chances that Fsys.atapi will support the popular industrial hardware

before QNX v4.25H is released?
I mean http://www.advantech.com/products/Model_Detail.asp?model_id=1-L6JY3
and some others.

Tony.

Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:

On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:43:55 +0400, Kevin Chiles <> kchiles@qnx.com> > wrote:
The driver doesn’t have the 0x7199 device id in it’s supported list, so
it will only use PIO mode. I just grabed the docs from the Intel site
and it looks like it should be compatible with PIIX4. I can send you an
experimental version if you like. It may work…
Any chances that Fsys.atapi will support the popular industrial hardware
before QNX v4.25H is released?
I mean > http://www.advantech.com/products/Model_Detail.asp?model_id=1-L6JY3
and some others.

Did you not get the email I sent asking for the output from “show_pci -vvv”?

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:59:05 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

Did you not get the email I sent asking for the output from “show_pci
-vvv”?
If it was regarding PCA-6773 - then not yet.

I’ll post it here…

Please, see the attached archive.

Tony.

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:59:05 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

Did you not get the email I sent asking for the output from “show_pci
-vvv”?
Here it is.

Tony.

Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:59:05 +0400, Kevin Chiles <> kchiles@qnx.com> > wrote:
Did you not get the email I sent asking for the output from “show_pci
-vvv”?
If it was regarding PCA-6773 - then not yet.
I’ll post it here…

Please, see the attached archive.

It looks like the BIOS isn’t enabling the chip. Can you try starting the
driver as follows:

Fsys.atapi atapi enable

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:55:55 +0400, Kevin Chiles <kchiles@qnx.com> wrote:

It looks like the BIOS isn’t enabling the chip. Can you try starting
the driver as follows:
Fsys.atapi atapi enable
Yes, it did the trick, thank you!

Tony.