Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 16:06:09 EST


On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:33:46PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 15:24:26 Frans Pop wrote:
> > Output of lspci -nn:
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI bridge
> > [1179:0601] (rev a0)
> > 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Chips and Technologies F65555
> > HiQVPro [102c:00e5] (rev c6)
> > 00:0b.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 02)
> > 00:11.0 Communication controller [0780]: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR
> > Port [1179:0701] (rev 21)
> > 00:13.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97
> > [1179:060f] (rev 20)
> > 00:13.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97
> > [1179:060f] (rev 20)
>
> Looks like the controller is not a separate PCI device. Toshiba provides Bus
> Mastering driver for Windows 95:
> http://209.167.114.38/support/download/files_Archive/Index/windows_95_files.htm
>
> So the controller probably can do DMA but it's not a standard IDE controller.
> And looks like there's no driver in the kernel for it.

I don't think that bus master package is for that machine. The
datasheet for it mentioned PIO4 max. I think the BUSIDE.EXE is for
machines with the early PIIX controller (which that particular machine
clearly doesn't have since it has no PCI IDE controller).

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Len Sorensen
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