Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-05 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: >Or inverting the defaults so that PIO is the default and sysctl is >required to enable DMA. Or perhaps default to PIO on the install floppies and then add a directive to the "Post Install Config" section of sysinstall which says "Do you want to enable

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sergei Vyshenski wrote: > >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 s

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Sergei Vyshenski
At 15:22 04.04.00 +0200, you 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 t

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Edwin Mons
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 > > mai

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
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 ?