From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:00:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Does IDE DMA work? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:04:08 +0100, Andreas Schwab said: Andreas> Has anyone got IDE DMA working? When I try it with 2.4.18 Andreas> the machine is hanging during partition table reading, with Andreas> the disk light constantly on. It seems like the kernel is Andreas> not receiving any answer from the disk. Yes, we have an ia64 system here with a IDE drive on which IDE DMA seems to work fine. However, it's not an Itanium machine and doesn't use the PIIX (or whatever its called) controller. I don't think I have ever succeeded in getting IDE DMA going on a Big Sur machine. I never tried to track it down to see whether its a hw or sw problem. --david