Re: suggestion on initial IDE-boot configuration

2004-09-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Interesting... I don't think it's unique to Sparc machines. I've encountered the same problem with a RevA BlueWhite Macintosh G3. It looks as though the problem is that the card is capable of faster performance than the PCI bus can sustain. The card advertises it's highest performance level,

suggestion on initial IDE-boot configuration

2004-09-21 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
Dear listmembers, my experiences with my U60 lead me to the following suggestion: - put a default ide=nodma as kernel parameter on SPARC - make the user / the configuration enable dma via /etc/init.d/XXX why? U60 cannot cope with udma-modes (AFAIK, on those Promise controllers I have tested)

Re: suggestion on initial IDE-boot configuration

2004-09-21 Thread Steve Pacenka
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 07:23, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: Dear listmembers, my experiences with my U60 lead me to the following suggestion: - put a default ide=nodma as kernel parameter on SPARC - make the user / the configuration enable dma via /etc/init.d/XXX why? U60 cannot cope with