Subject: Re: pciide and MPIIX
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/08/1998 10:55:14
On 07 Dec 1998 20:28:12 -0800
cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) wrote:
> Kevin Sullivan <ksulliva@psc.edu> writes:
> > Does NetBSD support the MPIIX PCI IDE chipset? On my laptop (a Thinkpad
> > 560) I see the following (edited) boot messages:
>
> I don't remember which intel PCI chipset it was, but one of them had a
> name that would make a user think that it had a PCI IDE controller
> function, but in fact it didn't.
This is the same chipset my NEC Versa 6050MX laptop has. It, in fact, does
not have a PCI IDE chipset in it, and it not capable of DMA.
"Bummer."
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