Re: unknown ide controller w/ GA-5AX

Adam Klein (aklein@eskimo.com)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:41:06 -0800


On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 07:29:44PM +0200, Leon Breedt wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having a small little problem with my new system:
>
> On bootup, kernel reports that i've got an unknown PCI IDE controller:
>
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9, DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
>
> Seems like its disabling UDMA mode or something then. I have a
> Gigabyte GA-5AX AGP motherboard, with an AMD K6-2 300 processor.
> The harddrive is a 3.2GB Fujitsu MPC3032AT item.
>
> What could be the reason for this?

IIRC, the GA-5AX uses the ALi Aladdin V chipset, which is not yet fully
supported. You can get a patch for support at:
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/

Adam

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