Re: Timeout during booting up non-DMA hard-disks

kernel-god, Thanks. However, I have checked that, during bootup, the IRQ 10 is only used by the IDE card (HPT370 chipset). (note, I have the onboard IDE attahced with a hard disk holding Linux). Would it be related to the driver which tried to treat my hard disk as DMA ones instead of PIO?

Re: Timeout during booting up non-DMA hard-disks

On some motherboards the IRQs are shared by PCI slots, look out for that. More importantly, if two or more PCI slots share the same Bus Master Control Signal you are asking for trouble(assuming you are using both slots) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Terence Ang wrote: > Dear All, >

Timeout during booting up non-DMA hard-disks

Dear All, Platforms == Linux 2.2.17 with ide & raid patches. Problems We recently purchased an IDE Card (HPT370 chipsets) and connected two 540MB hard disks (PIO 3) to it. During booting up, the hard disks could be recognized. However, it wait a long time before proceeding th