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SubjectRE: Unknown IDE chipset with Asus P5A motherboard.
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> [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of andre@suse.com
>
> Visit your local kernel mirror.
>
> ./pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
>
> Also the chipset code what written on the Asus design.
>
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux IDE guy
>
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Brent M. Smith wrote:
>
> > I get the following error on kernel startup when I moved to this
> > motherboard (Asus P5A, with Aladdin V IDE chipset):
> >
> > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78,
> VID=10b9, DID=5229
> > PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> > ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> > PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> > ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> >
> > The hard drive is detected as the following:
> >
> > hda: FUJITSU MPC3084AT, ATA DISK drive
> > hda: FUJITSU MPC3084AT, 8063MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
> >
> > Now since this is a fairly common motherboard, I assume I have something
> > set wrong in the bios, or the IDE guys have marked this as a hard drive
> > that is unreliable or something. Basically, I just want to be able to
> > turn the DMA on... hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda doesn't do the trick. It gives
> > me an "Operation not permitted" on the HDIO_SET_DMA Ioctl.
> >
> > Thanks for your time in advance,
> >

Asus uses the ALi Chipset on both the P5A and P5A-B (ATX and AT
respectively).
Support for it went into 2.3 a while ago and works like a champ.

Mark Szlaga
Network Administrator
Coast to Coast Telecommunications


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