On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Gunther Mayer wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> > Hi Adam,
> >
> > http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html
> >
> > We do not put ATAPI devices on such HOSTS.
>
> put == support ?
>
I wasn't clear enough in my original mail - the ATAPI device is on the
VIA southbridge, not the Promise card. The two drives on the Promise
card are hde and hdg.
> >
> > The driver will not work w/ ATAPI there because it uses a different DMA
> > engine location and is not supported in Linux.
>
> It is a serious bug in the IDE driver to hang the system (and not the user's
> fault).
>
> A fix would be to printk("The linux IDE driver does not (yet?)support ATAPI
> devices on PDC20269. Ignoring the device.\n");
> and continue running.
>
> -
> Gunther
>
At this stage I'm not all that bothered about the performance issues, I
just want to be able to use the two drives.
Thanks for the replies,
Adam
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