Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:16:19 +0000 | From | Adam Huffman <> | Subject | Re: Boot problem with PDC20269 |
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Gunther Mayer wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Hi Adam, > > > > http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html > > > > We do not put ATAPI devices on such HOSTS. > > put == support ? >
I wasn't clear enough in my original mail - the ATAPI device is on the VIA southbridge, not the Promise card. The two drives on the Promise card are hde and hdg.
> > > > The driver will not work w/ ATAPI there because it uses a different DMA > > engine location and is not supported in Linux. > > It is a serious bug in the IDE driver to hang the system (and not the user's > fault). > > A fix would be to printk("The linux IDE driver does not (yet?)support ATAPI > devices on PDC20269. Ignoring the device.\n"); > and continue running. > > - > Gunther >
At this stage I'm not all that bothered about the performance issues, I just want to be able to use the two drives.
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