Re: PIO mode support for 82371mx?

Thomas S. Iversen (thomassi@dina.kvl.dk)
Fri, 18 May 2001 18:54:00 +0200 (CEST)


> "accelerator"? it's just another ide controller.

I know, but as you wrote, the marketing department and so forth.

> or the piix driver doesn't recognize the pci vid/did for this
> particular chip. both are easy to fix.

I figured out it had to be something along those lines, but I'm not sure
(I'm not at kernel developer, not even close). For a start this particular
instance of the 82371 does NOT support Bus mastering. It seems that all
other variants do.

> you should seriously consider getting something else to use,
> though: PIO is the pits. it's been obsolete on desktops for
> at least 5 years.

It's not a desktop :) It's a laptop and as such I'm pretty much stuck with
the IDE capabilities built into it :|

Regards Thomas, Denmark

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