Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 18:54:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | "Thomas S. Iversen" <> | Subject | Re: PIO mode support for 82371mx? |
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> "accelerator"? it's just another ide controller.
I know, but as you wrote, the marketing department and so forth.
> or the piix driver doesn't recognize the pci vid/did for this > particular chip. both are easy to fix.
I figured out it had to be something along those lines, but I'm not sure (I'm not at kernel developer, not even close). For a start this particular instance of the 82371 does NOT support Bus mastering. It seems that all other variants do.
> you should seriously consider getting something else to use, > though: PIO is the pits. it's been obsolete on desktops for > at least 5 years.
It's not a desktop :) It's a laptop and as such I'm pretty much stuck with the IDE capabilities built into it :|
Regards Thomas, Denmark
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