From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133 Promise ctrlr, or...
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:14:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021219111450.GD17201@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212190217240.8350-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
> > > > So. I /think/ that somehow the Promise controller isn't being
> > > > initialized properly by the Linux kernel, UNLESS the mobo's BIOS
> > > > inits it first?
> > >
> > > In some situations yes. The BIOS does stuff including fixups we mere
> > > mortals arent permitted to know about.
> >
> > OTOH mere mortals are allowed to make full dump of PCI config ;)
> >
> > "D.A.M. Revok" <marvin@synapse.net>, can you send lspci -vvvxxx
> > outputs when you boot with BIOS enabled and BIOS disabled?
>
> Promise knows this point.
> Thus they moved the setting to a push/pull in the vendor space in the
> dma_base+1 and dma_base+3 respectively.
>
> lspci -vvvxxx fails when the content is located in bar4 io space.
Clearly Promise is the one storage vendor whose products are best avoided.
Andre, could you give a recommendation on what add-on IDE controllers are
not junk hardware and will work nicely with Linux? 'Cos I can't seem to
remember seeing anything in the shelves other than Promise or CMD64X/68X.
--
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-19 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <233C89823A37714D95B1A891DE3BCE5202AB1B35@xch-a.win.zambeel.com>
2002-12-18 10:38 ` D.A.M. Revok
2002-12-18 10:44 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-18 21:35 ` D.A.M. Revok
2002-12-18 22:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-18 22:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-18 21:58 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-18 22:03 ` D.A.M. Revok
2002-12-19 1:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-19 14:40 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-12-19 10:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-19 11:14 ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2002-12-19 11:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-19 12:03 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-12-19 12:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-16 18:54 ` Ookhoi
2002-12-19 15:14 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-12-19 10:33 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-19 18:12 ` Ross Biro
2002-12-19 6:47 ` Ross Vandegrift
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212181359350.8350-100000@master.linux-ide. org>
2002-12-19 13:26 ` Stephen Satchell
2002-12-21 23:22 Jason Radford
2003-01-17 16:47 ` Paul Jakma
[not found] <200212182204.gBIM48uD000332@darkstar.example.net>
2002-12-18 22:18 ` D.A.M. Revok
2002-12-19 2:02 ` Mike Dresser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-15 20:49 D.A.M. Revok
2002-12-15 21:39 ` John Bradford
2002-12-15 22:25 ` D.A.M. Revok
2002-12-15 23:37 ` John Bradford
2002-12-18 18:19 ` Ross Biro
2002-12-18 18:17 ` Ross Biro
2002-12-18 21:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-12-18 21:19 ` Ross Biro
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