Re: IDE still misbehaving in pre-2.1.89-4 [WAS: Can't set UltraDMA mode 2 on Quantum Fireball SE]

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 13:00:42 +0000

> Unfortunately, IDE is unstable in 2.1.85 and on, at least under SMP.

I've not found that to be the case.
On a Tomcat II under fairly heavy load, I've quite happily managed
"cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb1" (CDROM into first partition of HD) and then written a
CD from the IDE drive.

PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 0 function 57
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P-1) -> -1
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: FX810T4, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdb: Conner Peripherals 1620MB - CFS1621A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdb: Conner Peripherals 1620MB - CFS1621A, 1548MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=3146/16/63

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