Re: Re: 2.4.19 IDE Partition Check issue

From: Sven Koch (haegar@sdinet.de)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 17:17:00 EST


On 4 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:11, alien.ant@ntlworld.com wrote:
> > > Can you try 2.4.19-ac1 once I upload it.
> > > That has slightly further updated IDE code and it would
> > > useful to know if the same problem occurs
> >
> > Yes, it has exactly the same problem as stock 2.4.19
> >
> > Sorry!
>
> I'm out of ideas on the promise one then.

Perhaps one funny thing which got me with 2.4.19-rc3-ac3 bites you here
too:

With a "VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1" a am
not able to boot or read the partition-table, UNLESS I select
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y

If want to play safe and "use the slow pio modes" its broken, with
dma from the start it works without further problems.

c'ya
sven

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