Re: DMA not works in Linux 2.6.12, but in Windows works fine.

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 16:06:37 EST


Helge Pomorin wrote:
2005/5/23, Sergey Vlasov <vsu@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

This is a known problem - if the Intel ICH5/6 controller is used in
combined mode (SATA mapped to legacy IDE ports), DMA for PATA devices
does not work. If you reconfigure the controller in BIOS to not use the
combined mode (so that the SATA part becomes a separate PCI device), DMA
for PATA devices will work fine.

To IDE developers: Is something planned to work around this problem?
AFAIK, there are some machines where BIOS does not provide an option to
turn off the combined mode.


Hi there,
Got similar looking problem here,

It's completely different.


i cant change sata modes or something alike...

That doesn't matter under SATA.


I get *disabling irq* message with Intel ICH 4 / SIL 3112 A rev 01
SATA Controller on Asus P4G8X Deluxe board (P4 Northwood, Intel
*granite bay* E702 Chipsets) at distros which using newer kernel than

This is a totally different problem.

Jeff



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