Alladin chipset IDE

Mark Whitis (whitis@dbd.com)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:27:47 -0500 (EST)


I realize this question has been partially answered before but the
answer is no longer useful as it has a broken URL. I tried to
contact the original author.

I would like to use the ASUS P5A motherboard which is Alladin based
for some production machines.

- Where is the patch to allow the IDE drivers to work with the
alladin chipset? If anyone has a copy they could send me.
- Is this patch no longer necessary for some recent 2.2.x
kernel versions? Starting with which version?
- Will the driver work at all without the patch (i.e. in PIO mode
instead of DMA)? What is the performance hit? More importantly,
can one install a RedHat distribution before recompiling the
kernel? If we are just talking about 12MB/s vs 6MB/s transfer
rates, I am not concerned.
- Is the patched version stable?

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