Re: PIIX4-ide still not working in 2.4-test9...

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 03:53:34 EST


When you enable PIIXn support in the IDE section, make sure you DISABLE PIIXn
tuning which is the very next line.

This is a long time outstanding bug, it's been reported.

-d

Bruno Boettcher wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:40:24AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> Hi again...
>
> now i shoould have exactly the same settings as you, (can be checked at
> ftp://yoda.u-strasbg.fr/pub/erm7-kernel2.4-test9.config) and still,
> i get the message
> ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only : 13
>
> .......
>
> i have put the output of dmesg for 2.2.17 under
> ftp://yoda.u-strasbg.fr/pub/erm7-dmesg...
> since i was not able to save the kernel messages from the 2.4 kernels
> (BTW is there a way, besides copying on paper??)
>
> looking at them i saw that there are differences in the messages, on
> kernel2.4 it starts with a driver ID i haven't on 2.2 kernels:
>
> Uniform Multiplatform E-IDE driver rev 6.31
> ide: assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO Modes, ....
>
> then the same messages as in 2.2.17:
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 19
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>
> then another line not in 2.2:
> ide0: BM-DMA at <some address> BIOS settings hda: DMA hdb: pio
>
> and last as in 2.2:
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63, UDMA
>
> with the difference on the last line:
> hda: 1964080 Sectors w/384kB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63, UDMA(33)
>
> (i had to write fast, an even after several reboots this isn't easy, BTW
> <ctrl>Q/S do not seem to work to stop the flow...
>
> As a reminder, system is a laptop, trying to cold-boot a
> linux-system....
>
> it is very depressing that the system ran fine under all kernels since
> now, and that the newest near stable kernels aren't running at all....
> seems as if i will to have stay stuck all times to 2.2 kernels....
>
> --
> ciao bboett
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