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    SubjectAnother faulty motherboard
    In ide-dma.c one reads:

    * Some people have reported trouble with Intel Zappa motherboards.
    * This can be fixed by upgrading the AMI BIOS to version 1.00.04.BS0,
    * available from ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/bios/10004bs0.exe
    * (thanks to Glen Morrell <glen@spin.Stanford.edu> for researching this).

    Which suggests, that a faulty BIOS can cause problems with IDE
    Bus-Mastering, that are impossible to fix (at present at least) otherwise
    but by upgrading the BIOS. Then, I think, you can add one more problematic
    board to the list - Intel Aladdin (in other sources Morrison64) aka
    Advanced/AL and no BIOS upgrade, fixing the problem available (at least I
    was not able to find one, the latest tested being 1.00.04.CA0). In
    particular the problem is - impossible to turn IDE DMA on. At least this
    is my current understanding.

    At least I was unable to turn IDE DMA on with the help of many of the
    net-folk. However, some tests suggested (although not 100%) that Win* was
    able to do this...

    Cheers
    Guennadi
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    Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
    Department of Applied Mathematics
    University of Sheffield, U.K.
    email: G.Liakhovetski@sheffield.ac.uk



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