Latest 1.009 BIOS flashed last night. I'll try out some BIOS settings, but the settings work fine with Windows XP. That's why I think it could be something with the driver. This is with the PDC202XX_NEW on kernel 2.6.10 The DMA timeout happens sporadically, but as of yet, has yet toSounds simlar to the problems i'm having with the channels resetting under heavy load, and then fudging DMA, and i'm not the only one havign these issues, seems its a common problem with these cards, not sure if theres been some slight changes in the chip itself or wether there is a fault with the kernel driver, as you say, it seems that the problem does not occour under windows.
reoccur. The change from 1.008 to 1.009 mentions nothing about the
Promide IDE.
John
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:00:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
John Wong wrote:
I recently upgraded fron a nVidia nForce2 MCP-T based A7NX-DXI would try fiddling with BIOS settings, and make sure you have the latest BIOS.
motherboard to an A8V DX, Via K8T800 Pro. Now occassionally, I get DMA issues on a drive attached to a Promise 133 TX2 controller (20269).
Jeff