Re: 2.4.x ALI IDE strangeness

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Bob,

I'm also experiencing strange hangs with DMA on and ALI15x3.
I'm using an ASUS A7A266 motherboard.

Make sure that the BIOS setting of "PNP OS" is off

I can turn DMA on using hdparm, however my system freezes up
if I try some heavy work like a kernel compile.

I'm sure there is a kernel bug here, I'm trying to find
a kernel developer who is interested in investigating it.

Regards.  Paul



On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:32:35PM -0500, bob@dwcs.net wrote:
> When using any 2.4.x kernel, including the very latest one, with my
> Fujitsu Lifebook P which uses the ALI  M5229 IDE controller it acts much
> different than when using any 2.2.x  kernels that I have tried.  When
> using the latest 2.2 kernels and not including specific support for the
> ALI controller the kernel detects the controller and lets me use DMA.
> When compiling in ALI IDE support in either 2.2 or 2.4 kernels the system
> hangs when the controller is detected.
> That isn't really much of a problem in the 2.2 kernels because I can just
> use the generic IDE support.  In the 2.4 kernel series though, I can't
> enable DMA.  When booting with a 2.4 kernel I get this:
> 
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using
> pci=biosirq.
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 195
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ALI15X3: simplex device:  DMA disabled
> ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> ALI15X3: simplex device:  DMA disabled
> ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> 
> Then hdparm absolutely will not let me enable DMA giving me this error:
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> 
> 
> Changing the PNP OS value in the BIOS to either Yes or No does absolutely
> nothing and using "pci=biosirq" just makes the part that says "Please try
> using pci=biosirq." go away.
> 
> However, on accident I discovered if I boot with a 2.2 kernel, reset the
> computer instead of powering off, then boot with a 2.4 kernel it will let
> me enable DMA.
> 
> Is there anything I could try to make DMA work with the 2.4 series?
> 
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