> > > > So. I /think/ that somehow the Promise controller isn't being
> > > > initialized properly by the Linux kernel, UNLESS the mobo's BIOS
> > > > inits it first?
> > >
> > > In some situations yes. The BIOS does stuff including fixups we mere
> > > mortals arent permitted to know about.
> >
> > OTOH mere mortals are allowed to make full dump of PCI config ;)
> >
> > "D.A.M. Revok" <marvin@synapse.net>, can you send lspci -vvvxxx
> > outputs when you boot with BIOS enabled and BIOS disabled?
>
> Promise knows this point.
> Thus they moved the setting to a push/pull in the vendor space in the
> dma_base+1 and dma_base+3 respectively.
>
> lspci -vvvxxx fails when the content is located in bar4 io space.
Clearly Promise is the one storage vendor whose products are best avoided.
Andre, could you give a recommendation on what add-on IDE controllers are
not junk hardware and will work nicely with Linux? 'Cos I can't seem to
remember seeing anything in the shelves other than Promise or CMD64X/68X.
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