On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote:
> >
> > I'm in doubt as to the first drive though: The BIOS says it's 'Mode 4',
> > is that the same as WDMA2? Could the harddisk be reporting the wrong
> > value, even though the BIOS is giving the correct one? I'm just grasping
> > at straws here.
>
> Mode 4 is PIO4 that is no DMA, it could very well be the problem,
> WD has made a lot of problematic drives in this area.
> You could try to comment out the dmainit call in ata-disk.c and
> see if that helps you.
That helps me, but if I'm not mistaken it also disabled UDMA33 on the
second drive.
Ah well.. at least I can boot an ATA kernel now.
> And yes, I'm working on a way to set this from useland...
That'd be really nice, though if the kernel doesn't even boot to single
user mode, I don't see how this would help users with this problem, as
you'd have to do it before reboot.
Thanks for the swift reply,
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