Re: ide-controller ACARD 6260M not working with debian 3.0
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 00:43, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> And it also reports itself as a scsi controller under lspci. I think this
> is done on purpose to allow the card to be seen properly under MacOSX so
> that it can be used for booting from.
It's a hack done by this card and it's OF driver, not for MacOS X, but
rather for OldWorld machines that have rather broken IDE layer in OF.
> It is an IDE card (I have a 60gb ata cdrive attached to it) and as I said
> mine works well.
>
> > > Is this car supported under MacOS? Does it emulate a SCSI controller?
>
> > as you assume the card is supported under MacOS and it emulates a SCSI
> > controller as shown in "Apple System Profiler".
>
> I think the answer to this is yes for both the 6260M and the 6280M
>
> > as you assume the card is supported under MacOS and it emulates a SCSI
> > controller as shown in "Apple System Profiler".
>
> Are you sure the cable is connected properly (the right type of cable) and
> is the drive capable to be at the speed setting. Does changing the UDMA
> speed gtet rid of the lost interrupts?
>
> Kevin
>
>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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