> "accelerator"? it's just another ide controller.
I know, but as you wrote, the marketing department and so forth.
> or the piix driver doesn't recognize the pci vid/did for this
> particular chip. both are easy to fix.
I figured out it had to be something along those lines, but I'm not sure
(I'm not at kernel developer, not even close). For a start this particular
instance of the 82371 does NOT support Bus mastering. It seems that all
other variants do.
> you should seriously consider getting something else to use,
> though: PIO is the pits. it's been obsolete on desktops for
> at least 5 years.
It's not a desktop :) It's a laptop and as such I'm pretty much stuck with
the IDE capabilities built into it :|
Regards Thomas, Denmark
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