Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> It seems Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > Have a search through the archives as I think someone else had problems
> > with the Fujitsus. What if you disable DMA. Are you actually using the
> > drive in Win98 with DMA drivers ? What if go back to PIO mode. Perhaps the
> > maintainer can shed light on it ?
>
> > >atapci0: <Intel PIIX
> > >ATA controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0
> > >ata0: at 0x1f0 irq
> > >14 on atapci0
> > >ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>
> The old Intel PIIX is know to have DMA problems, I never intended to
> support it, but the current code (from luiqi IIRC) was found to be
> sufficient IF the BIOS did its job right. I seems that we have a
> BIOS here that doesn't setup things the way they should be, and the
> DMA setup fails because of that. Is there any way you could upgrade
> your BIOS ??
I've seen similar problems with a machine with an old VIA chipset.
FWIW: I think we need a way to tell the kernel before booting that it
shouldn't even try to use DMA/UDMA. Something like the good old device
flags..
Regards,
Edwin Mons
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