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

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've tried quite a few of the 2.4.19-pre patches, with or without
> various -ac patches, including pre10 + ac2, and they all basically
> display one of two behaviors: The machine either hangs just before
> detecting the disk, or when doing the partition check for the disk.

[...]

> 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

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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