On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:15:23PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:23:13AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Add support for ignoring the BIOS HPA result (off by default) and
> > setting
> > > the disk to the full available size unless already frozen.
> > >
> > > Tested with various platforms/disks and confirmed to work with the
> > > Macintosh (which broke earlier) and ata_piix (breakage due to the LBA48
> > > readback that Tejun fixed).
> > >
> > > For normal users this brings us, I believe, to feature parity with old
> > IDE
> > > (and of course more featured in some areas too).
> >
> > This is broken horribly on nvidia chipsets..
>
> I think this is what Kyle reported?
Yeah sounds like it. Kyle just pointed out the discussion that followed,
which for some reason linux-ide neglected to send me. I seem to have
fallen off the list a few weeks back, as looking at the archives shows
a bunch of ata related mails I don't recall ever seeing before.
> Try booting with sata_nv module
> parameter 'adma' set to zero, does that fix the problem?
jesse, wanna give that a shot? booting with the installer with
sata_nv.adma=0 should do the trick.
Dave
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