[LAT] BIOS and IRQ

[Grammostola Rosea]

Hi,

In my bios I' ve an option
IDE Hard Drive Acoustics Mode which can be set at:
[bypass] (now)
[quiet]
[Suggested]
[Performance]

What is this? Has this anything to do with the quietness of my hard drive?

It a dell worstation 360.



Also kinda dived into IRQs. Can someone say whether I've to change 
something?

[code]$ cat /proc/interrupts
          CPU0        0:        725   IO-APIC-edge      timer
 1:       3753   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 3:          1   IO-APIC-edge     4:          1   IO-APIC-edge    
 6:          5   IO-APIC-edge      floppy
 7:          0   IO-APIC-edge      parport0
 8:          7   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
 9:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
14:      34836   IO-APIC-edge      libata
15:      47652   IO-APIC-edge      libata
16:     350995   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb4, 
mga at pci:0000:01:00.0
17:      45546   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb2, ICE1712
18:     137409   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3, libata
19:          2   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb5
20:     150832   IO-APIC-fasteoi   0000:02:01.0
NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:    6091920   Local timer interrupts
RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:          0   function call interrupts
TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0
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[code]~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller 
Hub (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
   Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
   Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller 
(rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
   Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64
   Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
   Memory behind bridge: fe000000-feafffff
   Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f8000000-f9ffffff

00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to 
I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
   Flags: fast devsel
   Memory at fecf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
   I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
   I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
   I/O ports at ff40 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB 
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
   I/O ports at ff20 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 
EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
   Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 
00 [Normal decode])
   Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
   Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
   I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
   Memory behind bridge: fdf00000-fdffffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC 
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE 
Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
   I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
   I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
   I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
   I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
   Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller 
(rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
   I/O ports at fe00 [size=8]
   I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
   I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
   I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
   I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus 
Controller (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Dell Precision 360
   Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
   I/O ports at efe0 [size=32]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 
(rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 16Mb SDRAM
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
   Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
   Memory at fe9fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
   Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
   Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>

02:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
   Subsystem: Unknown device 18eb:5312
   Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
   Memory at fdfde000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>

02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 
[Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
   Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta Audiophile
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
   I/O ports at dee0 [size=32]
   I/O ports at dec0 [size=16]
   I/O ports at ded0 [size=16]
   I/O ports at df00 [size=64]
   Capabilities: <access denied>

02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0156
   Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
   Memory at fdfe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
   I/O ports at df40 [size=64]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
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can't change anything in my bios...