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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:57:34 +0200
From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
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To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
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Subject: Re: ALI15X3 (was: Problems with Maxtor 4G160J8 and 2.4.19-* +/- ac*)
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>  
>
>>ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
>>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
>>ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
>>ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
>>    
>>
>
>After poking around a bit, it seems like the real problem might be
>with the ALI15X3 driver.  I disabled that driver, and now I can boot
>using 2.4.19-pre10-ac2.  Of course, that leaves me with no DMA...
>
>So -- is this a general problem with this driver, or does it only
>show up when using disks bigger than 128GiB?
>
>  
>

hi Lars,
            now that you noticed this problem I did the same at home.
I get a different problem in general (see [FREEZE] 24.19-pre10 + Promise)
but I did like you suggested disabling the ALI driver and now everything
is working just fine but no DMA.

Fabio

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