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> <snip>
> 
> > > 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
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > What chipset is on your motherboard, per chance? I have a motherboard with
> > an Acer Aladdin IV+ chipset, and unless I put "options  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.
> 
> Same problem here with my Aladdin V chipset. DISABLE_PCI_IDE helps, but
> what I
> understood reading the source is, that this option disables DMA which
> cant
> be the final solution.
> But after all this isnt really a new problem. I found this in the
> bugreports:
> 
> [1998/11/07] i386/8594           ide_pci disables second channel in
> 3.0-CURRENT
> [1998/11/08] i386/8608           wdc1 is not detected on motherboards
> with Aladdin V chipsets
> 
I knew about that, I think I put one of them there, although I don't quite
remember.


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