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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:17:09 +0100
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata
Message-ID:  <20001102171709.E2687@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <200011021542.IAA08485@usr09.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:42:05PM %2B0000
References:  <200011021033.LAA94206@freebsd.dk> <200011021542.IAA08485@usr09.primenet.com>

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Am 02. Nov 2000 um 16:42 MET schrieb Terry Lambert:
> > > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is
> > Well, that chip is so broken by design, no software workaround can
> > help its misery, a hardware fix exists, but cant (easily) be 
> > retrofitted. Forget about it, buy a new Promise or whatever if
> > you really need that board, a software only fix is _not_ possible,
> > no matter what linux might tell you....
> 
> Are you sure that you aren't just not setting the right flags
> on the device?  This workaround used to be on by default in
> GENERIC.

Hm...You could set flags on wd?, but not on ata/ad. And this beast
is so broken you never reach rc.sysctrl for setting pio.
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