Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:05:05 -0600 (CST) | From | "Andre M. Hedrick" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0pre4 hangs while fsck'ing at boot time |
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Do you have a VIA chipset on your motherboard? > > If so, make sure CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO is *not* set in your kernel config. > > > > Let us know if this fixes your problem. > > Do you know which VIA IDE chips this sometimes affects, if so I can add > the to PCI quirks and send Andre a patch so that DMA never defaults to on > with a VIA and you can tune it by hand
There are one or two version of the VIA chipsets on FIC mainboards that has a history of eating the BIOS. Yes, that is exactly what I said, too. So I asked the system builder/techie again, repeat that one more time.
I will have to ask him what the exact board model and application of the the chipset revision for a possible candidate for the quirk list.
Hey Jim,
What is the model of that FIC VIA board that eats the BIOS and is fuzzy with the IDE-controller?
Cheers, Andre Hedrick The (NEW) Linux IDE guy The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.2.bin.tar.gz
You just need a bigger hammer, or learn how to swing the one you have better. (C) me.....
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