Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: Mobo dying hard with DMA support

# Re: Mobo dying hard with DMA support

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sun, 4 Jun 2000 03:46:37 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> > > Whenever I try to enable DMA on my BP6/HPT366, the machine dies completely
> > > (power-cycling doesn't cure it). Earlier, you said something about
> > > enabling DMA for the controller first, before the drive - how??
> > HPT366 on BP6 is horribly broken, forget this controller as if it never
> > existed. Get a cheap PDC20262 and use it instead.
> Hrm. I've never heard of one of those before - and a Google search turns
> up first an l-k post "I'm having trouble with the PDC20262 driver...",
> followed by a load of broken links to a warning from Andre about it. This
> doesn't look good...

http://www.promise.com/Products/idecards/u66.htm

Im using one on a BP6 in place of the broken onboard HPT366.

-Dan

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