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 <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
