>
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Joe Fago wrote:
>
> > System hangs on boot:
>
> > PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 40
>
> > This is the only device attached to the controller. Any suggestions?
>
> I have seen this before. I have a system that will do it every time right
> now, in fact. You can try setting interrupts to edge-triggered in your
> BIOS if it has such an option; this usually ``fixes'' the problem for me.
> Of course, it will mean you can't share PCI interrupts, if I understand it
> correctly. However, I'm not sure what's going on and nobody has commented
> on it thus far that I know of. :(
Mine has problems as well. I know there are workarounds, but I'm not
experienced enough to do these. Joe: what error messages do you get? I get
the "hde: timeout waiting for dma" errors. After that I have to cold start
my PC to get it working. BTW, I have a PDC20265, but I think these are
probably almost identical (or at least the behaviour we are getting is
probably due to the same problem in the code).
I also suspect that maybe what kind of hard drive you have makes a
difference as well, because some people can get their Promise IDE to work
fine, while others can't. I have a Quantum Fireball Plus AS.
In case you didn't know, Andre Hedrick met with some dude from Promise
called Craig Lyons on Wednesday. I haven't heard of any news from the
meeting, but supposedly Craig was going to give Andre some API for the
Ultra/Fastrack line of chips. Hopefully it went down on Wednesday.
David Grant
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