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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:19:38 -0500
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, grog@lemis.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Subject:   Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...
Message-ID:  <19990125011938.F1916@tidalwave.net>
In-Reply-To: <199901250608.RAA24912@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:08:19PM %2B1100
References:  <199901250608.RAA24912@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:08:19PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> Can you find out what chipset is in this guy? There's support for anything
> >> Intel or VIA, Promise UDMA cards, Cyrix MediaGX, and Acer Aladdin IV/V right
> >> now.
> >
> >See kern/9550.  The driver *used* to support my SiS chipset, but it no
> >longer does when both master and slave drive are present since I
> >updated about a week ago.  Possibly the same bug is biting Matt.
> 
> The driver doesn't have any special support for SiS.  It uses generic
> support in some cases, apparently including your case.  Recent fixes
> made it actually initialize DMA on the correct drive, but the
> initialization in generic_dmainit() is buggy (it assumes multi-word
> DMA mode 2 but your IDE timing is apparently incompatible with this).

Originally, this was meant so that people with UDMA drives could use them in
_some_ DMA mode on a chipset without explicit support (on the assumption
that the controller will be all set up for MWDMA2 or a compatible mode; a
hack, yes, but when you don't know anything about the controller, you can't
very well fix it), but the code was written to assume that for _any_
DMA-capable drive on a generic controller. The patch I just posted limits
the force-set to UDMA drives only, like it should have been in the first
place.

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