Thomas Evans wrote: > Hi All - >>> If I forget and get the "Plug and Play" error, disconnecting the >>> drives and resetting isn't enough, nor is power cycling *or* >>> unplugging the machine. I have to physically remove the card and >>> restart without it, power down and then re-insert it. I could only >>> plug the card into a 32bit slot, btw. >> So, except for BIOS weirdness, it works. > > I downgraded the BIOS in the card and it even works better on the x86 - > not more pnp errors. > >> On x86, BIOS runs, on alpha, it doesn't. It could be that BIOS >> configures something. Can you please post the result of 'lspci >> -nnvvvxxx' of the sil24 controller on alpha and x86? > > I was attempting to look at that - SRM on Alpha won't run arbitrary > option BIOSs (at least that I can figure - it will run those of > devices it recognizes in some way via emulation). > > With that said, I've attached the output ... > > They are different, just don't understand the differences. The only differences are in the standard section - PCI bus configuration, BAR allocation, etc. If you connect a regular harddrive instead of a PMP, it works well on alpha, right? -- tejun - 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
