Re: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133 Promise ctrlr, or...
Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:40:22 -0200
On 18 December 2002 20:38, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 21:35, D.A.M. Revok wrote:
> > So. I /think/ that somehow the Promise controller isn't being
> > initialized properly by the Linux kernel, UNLESS the mobo's BIOS
> > inits it first?
>
> In some situations yes. The BIOS does stuff including fixups we mere
> mortals arent permitted to know about.
OTOH mere mortals are allowed to make full dump of PCI config ;)
"D.A.M. Revok" <marvin@synapse.net>, can you send lspci -vvvxxx
outputs when you boot with BIOS enabled and BIOS disabled?
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vda
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