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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:37:23 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Sergio Jachtchenco <jachs@hstsoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE CMD 649 and AS200-233
Message-ID:  <20001219003723.D22186@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKEACGOLIMOGBLFGLMEBACGAA.jachs@hstsoft.com>; from jachs@hstsoft.com on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:59:52PM -0500
References:  <NDBBKEACGOLIMOGBLFGLMEBACGAA.jachs@hstsoft.com>

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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:59:52PM -0500, Sergio Jachtchenco wrote:

I could be completely offtrack here, but does bus master ISA dma work on
Alpha in the first place?

Drew? John? David?

Wilko

> I installed a CMD649 based IDE controller in an AS200-233 with FreeBSD
> 4.2-RELEASE, but I could not make it work. It is a bus master ultra dma IDE
> controller and is supported by the Intel port.
> 
> These are the messages I get from dmesg:
> 
> atapci0: <CMD 649 ATA100 controller> irq 15 at device 13.0 on pci0
> atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported
> 
> Besides it there are no messages about any ATA devices on this bus, even
> with a IDE disk connected to the controller. Everything else seems to be
> working. I booted NETBSD from the installation floppy and it prints the same
> message plus something as: "cannot map primary IDE register" and "cannot map
> secondary IDE register".
> 
> Does anybody have such a beast working in an Alpha?
> 
> Does anybody know another IDE controller (such as the Promise Fasttrak) that
> actually works? IDE disks are much less expensive and even if they are not
> incredible performers the AS200 is not either.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Sergio Jachtchenco
> 
> 
> 
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