1. atdisk patch with a two-channel IDE controller
Has anyone had any experience getting the atdisk patch to work with one of those
generic IDE controllers that have two IDE channels on board? I already determined,
by tracing the lines on my "S1345 VESA LOCAL BUS VL IDE & I/O Controller" that the
second IDE channel uses IRQ 15, and as far as I know the controller is at the
"standard" second IDE ports (170-177,370-377). Nevertheless the atdisk patch
does not find the single HD that I've attached to the second IDE channel. The
kernel goes into an infinite loop on startup, trying to reset the controller
and then timing out. (I tried #define-ing HD1_DontReset; no luck.)
Unfortunately the one page of "documentation" that comes with this
no-name IDE controller is too sketchy to be of much help: it notes that
"most S1345 installations only turn on Primary IDE channel at power up. To
use secondary channel, you need to run the supplied driver. Contact your
dealer to configure both channels on at power up." There is, of course,
no "supplied driver" and the "dealer" knows nothing about it. I suspect, from
this sentence, that the second IDE channel on this board is normally disabled
upon powerup and Linux's kernel initialization doesn't enable it. Presumably
either a trace must be cut, or something soldered, somewhere on the board (I've
accounted for all the "real" jumpers and even blindly cut and then resoldered the
undocumented ones, with no success), or else some software command must be sent
during kernel initialization to the board's logic in order to enable the channel --
I'd be able to test that under MS-DOS, I suppose, if I had the "supplied driver,"
but I don't.
If anyone has any suggestions (or a "supplied driver" for this kind of board!) I'd
be grateful to hear. I suspect that this might be of interest to others as well,
since the VL-bus multi-IO controller with two IDE channels seems to be fairly
'standard issue' nowadays -- I've seen it in several new PCs. It would be nice
to get it working under Linux.
Adam Jacobs
http:://amacrine.berkeley.edu/homepages/ajk/english.html
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