On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 08:15:41AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> I noticed that the promise driver doesn't work when the device is in dma mode.
> 
> wd2: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2
> wd2(pciide2:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
> wd2e: DMA error reading fsbn 9558208 of 9558208-9558223 (wd2 bn 29718208; cn 29482 tn 5 sn 37), retrying
> pciide2:1:0: lost interrupt
>          type: ata
>          c_bcount: 8192
>          c_skip: 0
> pciide2:1:0: Bus-Master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x1
> wd2: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
> wd2(pciide2:1:0): using PIO mode 4

Other peoples are using it on alpha in DMA mode. Did you check cables, etc ?

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