Re: LS 120 yields hda: Q, ATAPI UNKNOWN (type 17) drive

From: Marc Merlin (marc_news@valinux.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 15:09:05 EST


On jeu, jan 13, 2000 at 06:56:35 +0100, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> [LS-120 IDE drive not recognized]
>
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> > hda: Q, ATAPI UNKNOWN (type 17) drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > hda: driver not present
>
> I've seen this, and it has been discussed at least on the German
> hardware newsgroup. Please try setting your BIOS to PIO mode 0,0
> (_not_ AUTO) for the LS-120. That should work.

Indeed. The auto setting put PIO3/DMA1 I think and setting this back to the
lowest setting (normal which is PIO0 I guess) fixed the problem.

Thanks a bunch
Marc

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