[geeks] IDE question

Kevin kevin at mpcf.com
Thu Aug 14 11:58:47 CDT 2003


These are fairly recent Dell boxes so i doubt the IDE
is to blame.  Glad you mentioned it though, i've got a
Alpha PWS and i didn't know they used the CMD646 chips.
 Bummer.

/KRM

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:12:04 +0200
Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:

> On 2003.08.14 16:53 Caleb Shay wrote:
> 
> > Most likely dma is not turned on for that drive.
> Or it is one of the IDE adapters with broken DMA
> implementation. (CMD646 found in Sun U5 and DEC Alpha
> PWS comes to mind.)--
> 
> 
> tsch|_,
>        Jochen
> 
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