Subject: Re: PCI640
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/23/1997 10:53:13
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Manuel BOUYER wrote:
> On Jul 22, Bill Studenmund wrote
> > Hello,
> >
> > A few months back, I asked about a new Pentium motherboard. I learned that
> > the PCI640 is a PCI-based IDE controller. The boot messages on the machine
> > agree.
>
> isn't that what what Linux identifies as:
> ide: buggy CMD640B interface on pci (0x80003800); serialized, secondary port toggled
>
> You can enable support and buxfix support for this chip in Linux,
> but I don't know if the secondary bus work (I have only one drive in this
> machine).
Well, I'm not sure if it is the "buggy" one, unless they all are "buggy"
ones. :-(
Someone else mentioned that FreeBSD supports them. I'll go looking. :-)
Any ideas where?
Thanks!
Take care,
Bill