Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:36:17 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: BIOS setup needed for LBA48? |
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Well doors may know this but the door-stop does not. The driver has no clue currently and so we are back to a pig in a poke. I have never run 48-bit on AMD, and iirc NFORCE is a step-child of AMD.
It has everything to do with the DMA engine in the ASIC going south.
Cheers,
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > > Yes, if the host controller can not handle the double pump for dma > > operations. Disable DMA int it has to work. If it does not, you have a > > nice pile of junk, and it should be come a door. > > Shouldn't the driver disable DMA automatically (not allow to enable it) ? > Driver knows the controller type, knows the disk size ... > > Or is it not so simple ? > > > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > > > > > >>Can the Linux Kernel use the full drive (160GB/250GB/whatever) > > > >>even though the BIOS doesn't? (LBA48) > > > > > > > > Usually, yes. > > > > > > Is there anything that could make "usually, yes" become a "no"? > > -- > ======================================================================= > Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl > phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 > Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Gdansk University of Technology >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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