Bug in IDE code of 2.1.80 and 81

Andri Saar (andri@saared.kl.ee)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:19:40


Hi,

I have a SIS 5517 chipset onboard and two harddrives on both IDE
channels (hda and hdc, cdrom is hdd). Both kernels say something
about the cipset not being in 100% native mode. They detect my
harddrives correct, though. CD-ROM detection fails. First, it
resets IDE interface for a couple of times and then it says I have
0X ATAPI CDROM with 47 MB of cache :). 2.1.80 reached to partition
detection and then began the IRQ failed errors once more. 2.1.81
didn't even reach it, it managed to crash before...
I do not remember the correct error messages. Something about IRQ
timeouts.
2.0 tree is working fine, also 2.1.78. I guess 2.1.79 introduced the
bug, but the source didn't compile so I do not know wether it was 79
or 80.

Andri Saar
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