Hi Rodney,
Thanks for closing the loop on your problem. Great to hear a SanDisk 4G CF
card fixed the issue.
Though interesting, we default to "libata.dma=3" for both RUNNIX and AstLinux
which should disable DMA for CF devices. Possibly the old CF card incorrectly
looked like a PATA (or some
Lonnie,
Thanks again for the very quick reply - I believe I have tracked down
the issue. The older CF card I was using does not support DMA mode. By
pointing me in the correct direction, I was able to see DMA issues on startup.
Switching to another CF Card SanDisk 4G - UDMA/66 was s
Rodney,
We definitely support your IDE chipset:
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00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
(prog-if 80 [Master])
Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
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In AstLinux 1.x the kernel driver is "ata_piix" with CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y for both
RUNNIX and AstLinux
Ref: h
Hi Rodney,
Sorry to hear about the 1.x AstLinux not booting on your hardware. In general
1.x boots on more hardware than 0.7.x did, but that is little comfort to you.
:-)
My only suggestion is to post (or send me privately) a "lspci -vv" output from
your working 0.7.9, possibly we can determi
