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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:24:37 -0600
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Thilo Mezger <tm@spoiled.org>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_4_4: PIIX busmastering DMA not supported
Message-ID:  <20020103052437.GA30926@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C33C475.B9A1F18@ntlworld.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0201021709380.53787-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3C33C475.B9A1F18@ntlworld.com>

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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:39:49AM +0000, ian j hart wrote:
> Doug White wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Thilo Mezger wrote:
> > 
> > > I was wondering if somebody could explain to me why busmastering DMA
> > > is not supported in my setup (RELENG_4_4):
> > >
> > > # dmesg | grep ata
> > > atapci0: <Intel PIIX ATA controller> port 0xfcf0-0xfcff at device 1.1 on pci0
> > > atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported
> > 
> > According to the code, your controller does not claim to support DMA. The
> > original PIIX probably didn't support it, thinking about it...
> > 
> > Check your BIOS settings and verify that you didn't disable DMA at some
> > point in the past.
> > 
> > Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> > dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org
> > 
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> 
> This should be the 430 FX (triton) chipset which
> claims to support WDMA2. IIRC these could be a bit flakey,
> unlike the HX (triton II), which actually works ;)
> 
I've had a lot of problems when I used to use the i430 FX chips, but 
unrelated to this.

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David W. Chapman Jr.
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