Re: IDE/DMA madness

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:07:34 -0500 (CDT)


Did you??

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3=y

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 est@hyperreal.org wrote:

> Andre M. Hedrick discourseth:
> > > The exact same lines appear in 2.2.10 as well. Obviously this isn't
> > > the right way to fix my problem..does anyone know what is? I've got
> > > an Asus P5A-B motherboard.
> >
> > Recant of the bitch/complain........the alim15x3.c code was written on the
> > exact mainboard.
>
> Ah, great! But when I use it, still no DMA (even with ide0=dma). I get:
>
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, ATA DISK drive
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: hdd: Memorex CRW-1622, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Jul 25 22:41:29 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=19650/16/63
>
> Eric
>

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

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