Re: A7M266-D

[jan <jan@seismo.ifg.ethz.ch>]

thanks to all who helped me out. I finally found that option
in :
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
It is the AMD Viper support button.

Jan


Shawn Starr wrote:
> Works fine in 2.4.18+ (since I had the machine only durning 2.4.18).
> 
> Shawn.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of jan
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:34 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: A7M266-D
> 
> dear list,
> 
> i have an A7M266-D board with two AMD Athlon MP 2000+ on it.
> Unfortunately I am unable to compile the correct driver for the AM7441 
> IDE Controller (using 2.4.19)
> I always get this under SuSE :
> 
> AMD7441: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
> 
> When using a precompiled SUSE or RedHat Kernel it gets recognized.
> 
> 
> 
> SuSE Linux 2.4.18-64GB-SMP output :
> 
> AMD_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> AMD_IDE: chipset revision 4
> AMD_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> AMD_IDE: AMD-768 Opus (rev 04) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
>      ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>      ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> 
> RedHat 2.4.18-14smp output :
> 
> AMD7441: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> AMD7441: chipset revision 4
> AMD7441: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> AMD7441: disabling single-word DMA support (revision < C4)
>      ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>      ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong ? and why RedHat and SuSE Kernel have no Problem 
> with this Chipset ?
> 
> 
> best regards,
> 
> 
> Jan


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