Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS

From: Ondrej Zary
Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 16:44:23 EST


On Wednesday 02 April 2008 22:22:25 Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:10:23PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > I mean S320BIDE.EXE - that's for this machine only.
>
> Hmm, I missed that one. I wonder how they do it. Well ISA did support
> bus mastering DMA although it seems rare to implement it. Or it could
> be VLB style.

I suspect that the IDE controller is integrated into the Toshiba chipset but
does not appear as a separate PCI device. It could be controlled by some
registers of the "host-bridge" or some other device.

--
Ondrej Zary
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