Second IDE port not working on PC164

[Jay Estabrook]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:28:12PM -0700, Alan Young wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:40:30 -0400 Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook at hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > PYXIS is the core logic (north bridge equiv) on LX and SX (and MIATA).
> > Under certain conditions, DMA traffic could cause the hardware to hang.
> > Early MIATA had the most problems, LX and SX many fewer, and final MIATA
> > (aka MIATA-GL) none to speak of, due to amount of add-on hardware fixes.
> 
> Are there any issues with a LX and cards with a PCI bridge chip on it?

Actually, bridges usually help the situation, by breaking up the DMA
data transfers into smaller/shorter bursts. That's one reason why the
MIATA has a built-in bridge.

> The reason I ask is that I have a card that has USB, Firewire and
> SATA on it.  They are behind the bridge and I never got the card
> to work quite right.  USB 1.1 seems stable.  USB2 does a good
> job at locking the box.  The SATA seems to get an I/O conflict -
> "Error, MMIO ports already in use".  /proc/iomem shows the only
> other device in the range is the bridge.  The PCI bridge chip is a
> Hint Corp. HB1-SE33.

Any chance of seeing an "lspci -v" with that combo card installed?

Also, what kernels have you tried on it?

 --Jay++

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