[haiku-development] Re: Intel D945GCLF2 (Atom) motherboard -SUCCESS

  • From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:42:36 +1000

2009/9/23 Nick <tonestone57@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Only changes required, set SATA to Legacy in the BIOS setup and use Fail
>> Safe video mode.
>>
>> But it's far from perfect: I get random KDLs while reading from the HD.
>> I'll make more tests.
>
> You must have missed the part I said about disabling DMA through safe mode.
>
> The reason you get KDLs is because you have DMA enabled.  DMA works
> great with IDE stack but there is an issue with ATA stack.  I have an open
> ticket about this that you can add to.

Interesting.  I have DMA enabled but I don't get the KDL issue but I
am looking at a some curious failures when reading from the disk while
playing media files.

What ticket did you raise?

> Disable DMA & you'll see Atom330 works great - no KDLs for me.
>
> Also, we'll have to make due with VESA until someone updates the
> intel_extreme driver to newer version ( another ticket I have - #3149 ).


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Cheers
David

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