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SSD test

Started by CDRWSel, 2009.06.17, 01:50:01

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CDRWSel

I just received a new G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD
I used my existing mainboard (A8N-SLI prenium + AMD 4400+) to test this drive as boot drive and removed all other disk from the system to only have the SSD.
I start to install eCS V2.0 RC6a on it,
* first issue was the default SNAP is not conpatible when using an X850 ATI card with a 16/10 wide screen. I went back to VGA mode.
* Second issue; The disk was found and I defined a startable partition for the intallation but this one was never seen under the install tool and [next] button not validated (same result after a few test). I was then thinking to install eCS under a partition on a 7200rpm hd disk and I installed a second disk. At power on, Oh miraculus ! the SSD partition was made available for ecs installation ! (a second sata disk must be installed to validate entry using ssd ! strange)
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installation part 1 + part 2 took about 6mns but at reboot, system goes into a trap ! (Hum, it looks like SMP enabling + ACPI gives trouble like I had under eCS V2 beta3). Oh, I forgot to tell you, during the boot, their was no noise and whouah ! the boot sequence was very very fast...
I put back my config and next test will be with special ACPI parameters I used with ecs 1.2 but I don't know if these parameters are always valid. Do you know it ?
PSD=ACPI.PSD /NOD /SMP /DV:0X57 /TMR
Thanks
Remy
         

cytan

Hi,
   It's great that you got the SSD working. Thanks for the info! However, does SNAP work with X850 in wide screen mode after everything is installed?

cytan

Pete

Hi Remy

Is it possible to define your own modes for SNAP? If "Yes" then you should be able to get the screen working to your satisfaction.


With regard to your "PSD=..." line: /NOD and/DV:0X57 are the Defaults so should not need to be specified. I'm not sure if /APIC is a Default but the docs seem to indicate that you need to use either that or /PIC.

Some examples:-

This is the line used on an M2N mainboard (nVidia nForce430/MCP61 chipset):  PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /CD /TMR /APIC /!NOD

I also have a system using an A8N-E mainboard (nForce4 chipset) which works fine with this line: PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /APIC - probably a good starting point for the A8N-SLi


You may have to experiment a little to find out what works best with your mainboard chipset  :-)

Pete



CDRWSel

Quote from: cytan on 2009.06.17, 17:32:27
Hi,
   It's great that you got the SSD working. Thanks for the info! However, does SNAP work with X850 in wide screen mode after everything is installed?

cytan

The same Video card "x850" already work under eCS V2 beta 3 with SNAP and with my wide screen display (but files I've got from SNAP support which should be integrated into 3.18).

Strange to have my older ACPI driver working but not the 3.14 one ! (Today i did several test after ACPI doc review but none of the solution helped. I'll try more options and tell you)

Trap0008 at second reboot after end of step 2.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll disable some HW too to check result.
Remy

CDRWSel

Hi!
eCS V2.0 RC6a installed on the G.Skill falcon SSD (thoughput of 230MB/s read and 190MB/s write, seek time less than 0.2ms) but without /SMP.

Original trap was due to uniaudio driver and boot was ok as soon I disabled audio into the bios.
After RC7 install, audio is working and boot ok in non SMP mode.
A second problem was présent with the VGA driver. I could pass though and I installed the full SNAP318 and copied the special files I received in the past from the support (just before its end) to support my x850 ati card. This updated version installed ok and wide mode well enabled

I did a partition image via dfsee (41GB) into as small spare partition created to have easy backup/restore solution and on the same SSD drive. The final DFsee troughput was above 331MB ! May be ok due to less datas on this boot partition.

Now, I can go through ACPI wizard and try to enable SMP mode (may be the next trap !) but I will change some parameters before reboot. Full boot time with only one processor active is half the time of the previous boot time from a partition on a WD raptor 10000rpm disk. Very Good !   
Cheers/2
Remy           

Pete

Hi Remy

Quote from: CDRWSel on 2009.06.18, 03:55:32
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After RC7 install, audio is working and boot ok in non SMP mode.
...         


What RC7 is that? - I thought that maybe that latest eCS2.0 RC had been released but there does not seem to be an RC7 available when I login at Mensys.


Regards

Pete

CDRWSel


CDRWSel

Hi !

I tested ACPI 3.14 to 3.16 ! but none worked. I tried many combination of flags (according the provided doc and inf file) with hung or trap result and some lost of partition which required new installation !

Under my older eCS 2.0b3, I have acpi 2.14. i installed than acpi 2.18 and SMP run ok ! I upgrade it to ACPI 2.22 and again it is ok. But V3 didn't work.

For this asus A8N-SLI Premium board, use older ACPI 2.22 with following setting :
PSD=ACPI.PSD /APIC /DV:0x57 /TMR /SMP
         
Any idea about this issue ? This makes eCS very unusable...
Any good suggestion to find a way making 3.14 or 3.16 working is welcome .

The SSD work very well and seep is very high as I already wrote (It is a must use for me ;) ).
Mercury1.9 will now start immedialtly !

Remy

Andi

Usually here all 3.x versions work with /SMP /PIC. But I think it would be better if ACPI.psd works on most  systems without any parameter. But I think you've tried that before without success, did you?

CDRWSel

Hi !
The /SMP /PIC flag was done but it didn't work too and this option seems to make SNAP trapping (at workspace initialization) while the older V2.xx have no problem with ACPI enabled !