Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David Grant" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.9: PDC20267 not working | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:30:25 -0700 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Luna Lundberg" <kernel@gnifty.net> To: "Joe Fago" <cfago@tconl.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:46 PM Subject: Re: 2.4.9: PDC20267 not working
> > On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Joe Fago wrote: > > > System hangs on boot: > > > PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 40 > > > This is the only device attached to the controller. Any suggestions? > > I have seen this before. I have a system that will do it every time right > now, in fact. You can try setting interrupts to edge-triggered in your > BIOS if it has such an option; this usually ``fixes'' the problem for me. > Of course, it will mean you can't share PCI interrupts, if I understand it > correctly. However, I'm not sure what's going on and nobody has commented > on it thus far that I know of. :(
Mine has problems as well. I know there are workarounds, but I'm not experienced enough to do these. Joe: what error messages do you get? I get the "hde: timeout waiting for dma" errors. After that I have to cold start my PC to get it working. BTW, I have a PDC20265, but I think these are probably almost identical (or at least the behaviour we are getting is probably due to the same problem in the code).
I also suspect that maybe what kind of hard drive you have makes a difference as well, because some people can get their Promise IDE to work fine, while others can't. I have a Quantum Fireball Plus AS.
In case you didn't know, Andre Hedrick met with some dude from Promise called Craig Lyons on Wednesday. I haven't heard of any news from the meeting, but supposedly Craig was going to give Andre some API for the Ultra/Fastrack line of chips. Hopefully it went down on Wednesday.
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