On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:59:27PM +0100, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> Work have just issued me with a Compaq M300. It worked fine
> for three hours or so with 1.5.1, and then the harddisc
> timed out initially with a DMA failure. The only way to get out appeared 
> to be power off the machine and then have to do an fsck from hell.
> 
> I spoke to a friend with the same laptop and he says he has
> had the same problem with OpenBSD (2.8 I believe). I've done a few
> queries of the PR database but that didn't turn up much.
> 
> Are there any known issues with the Intel 82371AB IDE controller?

This is the PIIX4. Really, this controller is well supported in NetBSD,
and is present in a lot of i386-based machines (so the code is well-tested).

Maybe there was a different version of this controller for laptops, but
they didn't change the vendor/device ID ?
Some vendors do this, but Intel is usually rigth for this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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