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Date:      Wed, 9 Dec 1998 22:20:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        lcremean@tidalwave.net
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ide_pci.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812092214050.1318-100000@culverk.student.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981209212339.A82984@tidalwave.net>

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> On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 08:42:42PM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> > I just thought that someone in here should know this: I have a generic
> > dual PCI IDE controller. It can support up to 4 devices. I have 2 hard
> > drives on the first controller, and an ATAPI cdrom drive on the second.
> > The problem is that when it boots, it says that the controller is simplex,
> > and that there is no dma on the secondary channel, and then when it gets
> > down to the ISA configuration, it won't find anything on the second
> > controller. The only way I could fix it is to go to
> > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/files.i386 and delete the line that specifies
> > ide_pci.c
> 
> What chipset is on your motherboard, per chance? I have a motherboard with
> an Acer Aladdin IV+ chipset, and unless I put "options DISABLE_PCI_IDE" in
> my kernel config,  my second channel will not work.  I've been meaning to
> look into adding native support for the Aladdin's PCI IDE controller for a
> while now, but I haven't had the time (or made the time, really) to do the
> work. 
> 
I can't find anywhere in my doc for my motherboard what chipset I have. It
is just a generic chipset as far as I can tell. I'll have to get inside
the computer and take a look at the actual chip in order to tell you.

Kenneth Culver


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