Re: PATA failure with piix, works with libata

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 20:01:11 EST


On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:58:09PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >Yeah, this is an ICH7. I can't find anything in drivers/ide that would
> >result in it being done, which is why I'm kind of confused. ide_ack_intr
> >seems to be defined to do nothing on x86 since IDE_ARCH_ACK_INTR isn't
> >defined there?
>
> This is more a piix-specific behavior than an arch-specific behavior.

Joy. So it works by accident in legacy mode? Does anything need to be
done other than just writing the DMA status register back? I'm not
finding anything terribly helpful in the ICH7 docs, but I may just be
being blind.

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