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Re: IDE/DMA problems?



Sorry to follow up my own post, but I never saw a solution to this problem.
Anyone have one?

On 16/06/00 at 15:12 Mark Herrick spake the following magic words:

>I too get this message at boot, but i have 2 IDE drives on the 1st
>controller, and a CD-ROM drive on the 2nd.
>I don't think it's a problem with CD/HD on the same controller - I think
>the kernel doesn't recognise the IDE controller.
>Anyone got any ideas?
>
>On 16/06/00 at 14:41 Jason Quigley spake the following magic words:
>
>>Hi Horacio!
>>
>>I too get this message, but it started occurring when I attached an IDE
>>CDROM to the same channel as the hard disk. I guess it's just stepping
>down
>>or something. I was using a SCSI CDROM before and didn't have this
>problem.
>>
>>My suggestion would be to put the CDROM onto the other channel and see if
>>things are better. I certainly see myself buying an IDE card for this
>>reason.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Jason.
>>
>>
>>At 11:38 +0200 16/6/00, Horacio MG wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>currently I'm entering the BIOS quite often for enabling/disabling the
>>>IDE/SCSI boot, so that I can boot from an IDE (UDMA) HD or a SCSI HD as
>>>needed.
>>>
>>>All of a sudden, I've started to see some message from the kernel.  Here
>>>is the 'dmesg' relevant part:
>>>
>>>PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
>>>DID=5229
>>>PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>>>PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled
>>>ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
>>>PCI_IDE: simplex device:  DMA disabled
>>>ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
>>>hda: ST38630A, ATA DISK drive
>>>hdb: CRD-8400C, ATAPI CDROM drive
>>>hdc: ST34321A, ATA DISK drive
>>>
>>>... strange as right now I've booted from the IDE disk and IDE boot mode
>>>*IS* enabled in my BIOS.  I'm 100% sure I haven't fiddled with any other
>>>BIOS option.
>>>
>>>Any idea as to why this is happening?
>>>
>>>Please, Cc: me as I'm not on this list.
>>>
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>
>>>--
>>>Horacio					Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C.
>>>hacho@crosswinds.net			Valencia - ESPAÑA
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