Subject: Re: anybody working on...PCI IDE?
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@bikini.ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/31/1997 20:24:43
> Anyone working on the PCI IDE (w or w/o DMA) support?
I modified the wd driver to use bus.h and added a PCI front-end some
time ago. Unfortunately, I then found that:
1) the IDE chip I had was hard-wired to `legacy' mode, so I couldn't
even test it, and
2) there's a conflict between the port numbers used by the ISA IDE
controller and ISA floppy controller, which causes one or the other
(currently the floppy) to not be detected.
I have reasonable hardware now, so I can actually test it, but the
conflict needs to be dealt with somehow.