Re: Bug with PCI initialization in pre2 on a dual P100

From: John Gruenenfelder (johng@bach.as.arizona.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 23:30:56 EST


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
>
>> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfb690
>> PCI: Using configuration type 2
>> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:03.0
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 00:03.0
>> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 1 for Promise Technology, Inc. 20262
>> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 3 for Promise Technology, Inc. 20262
>>
>> and a little later:
>>
>> PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18
>> PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode
>> PDC20262: IO baseregs (BIOS) are reported as MEM, report to <andre@suse.com>
>> PDC20262: inconsistent baseregs (BIOS) for port 0, skipping
>> PDC20262: IO baseregs (BIOS) are reported as MEM, report to <andre@suse.com>
>> PDC20262: inconsistent baseregs (BIOS) for port 1, skipping
>> PDC20262: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
>>
>>
>> And then it can't mount root so it hangs (I copied the above by hand). I
>> don't believe this is a problem with the Promise card. If I use kernel 2.2.14
>> w/IDE patches I get:
>>
>> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfb690
>> PCI: Using configuration type 2
>> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>> PCI: Assigning I/O space 5800-5803 to device 00:18
>> PCI: Assigning I/O space 5804-5807 to device 00:18
>>
>> and a little later:
>>
>> PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18
>> PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6200-0x6207, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
>> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6208-0x620f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>
>First I want some Project Time over and above what the Time Committee will
>give (former astronomer) ;-).

I'll see what I can get... :)

>However, Martin, what changed in the auto-assignment of IO-Space that
>does not get properly setup by the mainboard BIOS?

So, this is a problem with the mobo BIOS and not with the IDE card?
If that is the case, I'm afraid that I probably won't be able to flash the
BIOS. Fugutech disappeared a while back, but now they have reappeared, but
the website contains almost no English so I cannot even find my way to the
BIOS section (if they even remember this board).

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