From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: It's impossible to install RedHat Linux 9 into a hard-disk which is connected to HPT374 ide-controller when the DMA has not been disabled. Obviously, the system will simply not boot later on (after the installation) if the "ide=nodma" kernel parameter has not been set accordingly. ACPI doesn't seem to matter as it has been tested on and off, as well as local IO-Apic has been disabled as well. The system works fine with Highpoint's own proprietary ide-driver though (DMA enabled). The error message is: "hde: Lost interrupt" (there is simply nothing else) l Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-8, kernel-2.4.20-18.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try too boot up the system with 2.4.20-18.9, which has been installed on a disk connected to HPT374-controller. 2. 3. Additional info: The hardware in question is: Epox 8K9A3+ motherboard (Via KT400, HPT374-ide (Dual Channel ATA-66/100/133 IDE), Latest v. 13.03.2003 mb bios) AMD Athlon 1400 TB IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45GB HD (IBM-DTLA-307045)
Created attachment 92998 [details] The output of lspci -vv
Created attachment 93110 [details] IDE DMA-related errors with latest 2.4.20-19.9 kernel It seems that the release of RH9 updated kernel (2.4.20-19.9) has fixed the kernel hanging bug (DMA w/ HPT374), although there still seems to be some problems with DMA with high I/O cases as the attached log file shows. I'm very happy to get rid of hightech's proprietary driver ... If you need any more information, please ask.
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