Re: Unknown IDE chipset with Asus P5A motherboard.
Thierry Vignaud (tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:11:17 +0000
"Brent M. Smith" wrote:
>
> I get the following error on kernel startup when I moved to this
> motherboard (Asus P5A, with Aladdin V IDE chipset):
>
> 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)
>
> The hard drive is detected as the following:
>
> hda: FUJITSU MPC3084AT, ATA DISK drive
> hda: FUJITSU MPC3084AT, 8063MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
>
> Now since this is a fairly common motherboard, I assume I have something
> set wrong in the bios, or the IDE guys have marked this as a hard drive
> that is unreliable or something. Basically, I just want to be able to
> turn the DMA on... hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda doesn't do the trick. It gives
> me an "Operation not permitted" on the HDIO_SET_DMA Ioctl.
It's not an error, just a warning.
Your config is fine, there's no problem.
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--Thierry
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