Re: Kernel pre10-3 and Via IDE chipsets, specifically, 82c596/597

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 00:22:06 EST


David Bronaugh wrote:
>
> Hey
>
> On boot, the kernel driver for the above mentioned chipset (Via IDE)
> detects the 82c596/597 as an ATA/33 core. This isn't true. The chipset
> has an ata/66 core.
>
> The motherboard is an Epox EP-MVP3C2, the HD is an IBM DPTA-372050
> (ATA/66 drive), and it's attached to an ata/66 cable.
>
> Any suggestions, comments, patches, etc would be welcome.. if it's my
> mistake, i'm curious as to why it's listed by Epox as ata/66, why the
> bios detects the drive as ata/66, etc.

Can you post 'lspci' for your box?

It looks like the ATA-66 setting depends on your northbridge, which
doesn't seem correct to me by looking at the docs.

        Jeff

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