Re: Netra X1 IDE controller/disk issues

[Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar%fessel.org@localhost>]

Am 12.05.2010 um 16:52 schrieb Julian Coleman:

> Hi,
>
> > IDE controller in Netra X1 has problem to handle DMA in LBA48-mode  
> > [1][2].
>
> > [2] http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=daniIDE
>
> Looking at that table, it seems that the version that Sun used  
> (0xC3) can't
> do ATAPI DMA writes, which would explain the problems that I had  
> with DMA
> to the CD drive, nor anything faster than ATA33.

Looking in more detail, it states revs < 0xC3 have this problem, revs  
< 0xC4, which includes 0xC3, have no working support for LBA48 DMA.  
(and should not be using ATA100 or 133)
So, in theory, you should not have any problems with a CD drive...

Cheers
        Oskar