On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 02:42:57PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> The 810 chipset is brand new -- its the basis for most of the new
> really cheap celeron based systems. Full docs in PDF are on the Intel

Things always come a bit later in France :)

> web site. (It isn't just one chip, btw -- it is several...)

Ok, I'll check this once I've commited the promise support (by the end of the
week I hope). I hope it's close enouth to the PIIX4 :)

> 
> > Well, if the hang occured in DMA mode then this is another problem than the one
> > I fixed. But as you forced DMA maybe it's just that the BIOS didn't set up
> > DMA properly for the CD. Did the BIOS announce somthing about DMA modes used ?
> 
> I don't remember. It is a very new BIOS, though...
> 
> What sort of message should I be looking for?

Depend of the BIOS ... Something telling what it has found on the IDE bus
Usually modes used are printed at the same time. With award bioses it's printed
in a table just before the boot sector is loaded (so it's very hard to see the
whole table :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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