Re: Asus P4B533 and resource conflict on IDE (P4PE also)

[Ian Morgan <imorgan@webcon.net>]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 04:09, Ian Morgan wrote:
> > The ICH4 IDE on my ASUS P4PE had the exact same problem, but the -ac pathes
> > make it hum along very nicely. Requring the PIIX driver, though, seems a
> > little wonky. Without -ac, the controller is detected as "ICH4" and doesn't
> > work. With the -ac patches, it works, but is detected as PIIX. Rather
> > confusing. Perhaps the the Configure.help should mention the ICH4?
> 
> Just a labelling difference. ICH4 is the chipset, it contains a PIIX IDE
> controller

Yes, I know that, but many people probably won't, was my point. Then again,
I guess anybody building their own kernel probably will have some clue about
what hardware is in their box, so it's probably not a big deal.

Regards,
Ian Morgan

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