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> > > > 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. -- Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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