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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:14:15 +0100
From: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@gmx.net>
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To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
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Subject: Re: Boot problem with PDC20269
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Andre Hedrick wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html
>
> We do not put ATAPI devices on such HOSTS.

put == support ?

>
> The driver will not work w/ ATAPI there because it uses a different DMA
> engine location and is not supported in Linux.

It is a serious bug in the IDE driver to hang the system (and not the user's
fault).

A fix would be to printk("The linux IDE driver does not (yet?)support ATAPI
devices on PDC20269. Ignoring the device.\n");
and continue running.

-
Gunther




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