Re: ALI M15x3 support

From: Tobias Ulbricht (up5a@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 19:41:31 EST


>From: <Matman@arcormail.de>
>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:11:50 +0200
>Subject: ALI M15x3 support
>

>I am not really sure that this is a bug. If there is more supported as "Use
>PCI DMA by default", "Generic PCI bus-master DMA support", "Generic PCI IDE
>chipset support", "include IDE/ATA-2 Disk support" and "Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL
>support" to run ALI M15x3 support, please let me know it.

same config with me.

>whithout problems. But when i enable the ALI M15x3 support, to have a

it works with me (same Mainboard)

>specified driver for my ASUS P5A motherboard with ALI M1543C IDE-Controller,
>the kernel makes this message:
>
>unknown partition table
>
>and later:
>
>unable to mount root fs
>
>It could be important for you to know that my P5A motherboard have an
>UDMA/33 bus and my IDE harddisk is a little bit newer (UDMA/66). With
>enabled ALI M15x3 support the kernel detect my harddisk as an UDMA/66 drive.

my HD *is not* UDMA/66 but UDMA/33

>And the newest P5A motherboards also have an UDMA/66 bus. Is it possible
>that my UDMA/33 bus, my UDMA/66 disk and the ALI M15x3 support is the result
>of the problem reported above?
>
>Now some informations about my system. If you need more, let me know it. I
>will then send it to you. Have a nice day!

same with me.
SuSE 6.3, Kernel 2.4.0-test1

>Distribution is Mandrake 7.0, Kernelversion is 2.4.0-test1
cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0213-0213 : isapnp read
0220-022f : Sound Blaster 16
0290-0297 : w83781d
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0330-0331 : Sound Blaster 16 - MPU-401
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0620-0623 : Sound Blaster AWE
0a20-0a23 : Sound Blaster AWE
0a79-0a79 : isapnp write
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
0e20-0e23 : Sound Blaster AWE
5c20-5c3f : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU
b400-b40f : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE
  b400-b407 : ide0
  b408-b40f : ide1
b800-b81f : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
  b800-b81f : ne2k-pci
d000-dfff : PCI Bus #01
  d800-d8ff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3
e800-e81f : ali15x3-smb

cat /proc/cpuinfo
[..]
cpu family : 5
model : 9
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 400.917711
[..]

lspci -vv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1541
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 set
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [b0] AGP version 1.0
                Status: RQ=28 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=21
                Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5243 (rev 04)
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 set
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: de000000-dfffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e5f00000-e7ffffff
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

[..]
00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 (rev c1) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 2 min, 4 max, 32 set
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
        Region 4: I/O ports at b400 [size=16]

perhaps it helps you,

regards, Tobias.

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