Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Richard Cobbe wrote:

> Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write:
>  

> Didn't know about lspci; thanks.
>
> If I'm reading the output correctly, though, I'm not using a VIA IDE
> interface:
>
> [nanny-ogg:~/mail/.spools]$ lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700c (rev 11)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700d
> ...
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7441 (rev 04)
> 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7443 (rev 03)
> 00:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 01)
>
> The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the "unknown mass
> storage controller" line above) that has another two controllers on it.
> I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at all; I
> may attempt that later this afternoon.
>
> Alternatively, should the fact that lspci keeps saying "unknown device"
> worry me?
>
>  
No. This device works fine:

kowari:~# lspci -s 00:09.0
0000:00:09.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. 
HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
kowari:~#


For a while my aged Pentium II wouldn't boot off the builtin IDE 
controllers, so I stuck the drive onto one of these and all was well 
(after reconfiguring the BIOS).


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Cheers
John

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