[Newbie] Re: Problem creating filesystem

Rogerio Brito (rbrito@iname.com)
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:57:39 -0300

On Feb 26 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote:
> > The IDE controller is
> > Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> > Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev
> > 2).
> > Vendor id=105a. Device id=d30.
> > Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32.
>
> Unrelated to disk "problem", you might want to set your PCI latency timer in
> BIOS to 64 or more.

Ok, I understand that this is probably off-topic and way too
basic, but what exactly would this do, in layman terms? Would
the latency being set to 32 result in any potential data
corruption? BTW, to set this quantity, one should use setpci,
right?

Thanks for any help, Roger...

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