Re: ALI15X3 (was: Problems with Maxtor 4G160J8 and 2.4.19-* +/- ac*)

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
2002-06-23T16:57:43Z

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
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>>ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
>>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
>>ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
>>ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
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>After poking around a bit, it seems like the real problem might be
>with the ALI15X3 driver. I disabled that driver, and now I can boot
>using 2.4.19-pre10-ac2. Of course, that leaves me with no DMA...
>
>So -- is this a general problem with this driver, or does it only
>show up when using disks bigger than 128GiB?
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hi Lars,
now that you noticed this problem I did the same at home.
I get a different problem in general (see [FREEZE] 24.19-pre10 + Promise)
but I did like you suggested disabling the ALI driver and now everything
is working just fine but no DMA.

Fabio