Re: 2.1.107 driver hard locks w/DMA

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (root@lightside.ddns.org)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:13:59 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > This seems to be a common theme with the SiS559x chipsets and an AMD K6
> >
> > I will eventually update the ide-dma driver to default to OFF
> > for this particular chipset.
>
> In every case so far its been an AMD K6 - I think its a CPU type check. It
> may also be people with very early ASUS SP97VX bioses - the default memory
> refresh is too high. (In fact the whole bios sucks rocks)

Um, no. Cyrix (M2) here, and mobo is a GA.. Don't think we're going to buy
SiS stuff again.

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