Re: IDE message

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:

 : Since switching to 2.1 I have been getting the following message at
 : bootup:
 : PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
 : PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
 :     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
 :     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
 : 
 : What does it mean, and is it affecting performance in any way? 

This is just a WAG, but I think you have a Triton chipset but no Triton
support in your kernel.  At any rate there are several IDE chipset
support options in the kernel config.

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