Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:27:18 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for help on UDMA on Acer chipsets... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810280119550.1449-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <19981027200132.A977@tidalwave.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>From personal experiances with Acer i'd avoid them like the f'ing plague Took 2 tech support people over a week of daily contact before i bit the bullet and manually guessed as to what jumpers where what on a motherboard. One other time i needed jumper info, it only took 3 days of emailing back and forth to get the sheets. After asking why it's not on thier site i was told "it's not something we want the customer to mess with." Anyone familiar with the legal ramifications of having a site up that has anti-testimonials about companies, I have quite a few on my sh*tlist and email corrispondance with these companies to show why. I'm quite sure stuff like that falls under "fair use" no? Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Lee Cremeans wrote: > I just got myself a shiny new Seagate Medalist Pro 9140 9GB UDMA drive > yesterday, and I noticed as I was setting it up last night, that if I > enabled DMA on it, it got the dreaded interrupt timeout spasms people have > seen. I think I know why...my motherboard, an Amptron 9600, uses an Acer > chipset, which isn't explicitly covered in ide_pci.c...so I've had to do > what all those others have had to do, and turn off _all_ IDE DMA support on > this drive. :( > > The purpose of this message is to get some help in fixing this--I can be > helpful myself, with coding, testing, etc, but I need someone who has an > Acer Aladdin IV+ or Aladdin V chipset, runs 3.0-CURRENT, and can get access > to the Acer M1543 data sheet (which is available on the web at acerlabs.com, > but it's behind a Username/Password box and I don't know how to register). I > think it's a real shame to have to run my drive in PIO mode just because of > this. Also, a workaround I can think of for other non-supported chipsets > (like SiS) would be to put the drive in Multiword DMA mode 2 instead of > UDMA--but I'm not sure if this is possible without stepping on any timing > toes, I'll see. > > > -- > Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet) > A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did > $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | mailto:lcremean@tidalwave.net > http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net | Powered by FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.05.9810280119550.1449-100000>