[mythtv-users] does setpci latency_timer fail on some

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Jun 6 00:12:35 UTC 2007


Craig Huff wrote:
> All,
> 
> Johnathan's reply in this morning's digest triggered a thought, so I 
> went out and googled "PCI-E latency" and came up with information
> that was new (to me, at least).  According to information here:
>     http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=951
> and here:
>     http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1064501&mpage=1&key=􄇄
> PCI-E doesn't take latency settings because each card has a (separate?) serial
> connection to the system rather than a shared bus.  Hence, PCI-E connected
> resources show zero (0) for their latency when PCI configuration tools query
> them.
> 
> Make sense?  Original question answered?

Makes sense, but I thought the original question referred to PATA and
SATA disk controllers, which are on the PCI bus.

BEWW


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