Re: Mobo dying hard with DMA support

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 01:01:39 EST


On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> > A hardware reset doesn't cure this problem - the CMOS RAM is fscked. Also,
> > the hardware works fine (but slowly) using DMA with the generic driver;
> > only the HPT366 driver fscks up. It could be due to the specific driver
> > exercising something the generic one doesn't - but enabling DMA works with
> > one, but fscks up with the other. Why??
>
> Because the generic driver doesnt do Ultra DMA.

Just enabling DMA kills the machine, though. NOT UltraDMA.

James.

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