Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc3 : IDE pb on Alpha

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:40:17PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:53:02AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > I realized that a "idex=nodma" option is really lacking here. Shouldn't we
> > disable IDE by default on Alpha at the moment, so that it at least boots ?
> 
> According to your .config and dmesg output, you didn't have the
> chipset driver compiled in (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3).
> Naturally, you would have troubles with DMA.

Sorry, I pasted the .config that I used just after, and which allowed me to
boot. Later I set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 again and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI,
but I left CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO disabled. I now can boot and enable DMA
later. That's weird, but it works.

Regards,
Willy