Re: ali14xx fix (patch)

Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.ow.nl)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:23:02 +0100


On Sunday, 15 February 1998 at 13:19:11 +0100, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:

> Forcing kernel to probe for ali14xx chipset (via kernel option) cause
> a "division by zero" error and system hangs with Intel Triton
> motherboards. As probing port 0x34 is guilty the following little
> patch fixes this problem.

Sound more like fixing the symptom that fixing the problem to me.

> Do you know if this chipset family has been applied to anything else
> than 486 MBs ?

I use it with my M4803 IDE controller, which is a PCI card, on my Acer
Labs M1449/M1451 P60 motherboard. My card sits at port 0xf4, but who
knows what else is out there...

Cheers,
Sander

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