Failed to make it to os2hardware at 2007-03-10 18:42 UTC - so resending it!

Andre Nancoz wrote:
> ** Reply to message from rallee2{at}comcast.net on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:16:47 +0000
>   
>> Within the bios setup utility there should be either under the
"Advanced"
>> section or in it's own "Peripherals" section (some older
bioses even had
>> "Chipset" for the most part, back when AMI, Phoenix, and
Award were separate
>> and very different had a separate "autodetect ide
drives" or "peripherals"
>> section) there will be a list of the IDE controllers, Primary and
Secondary at
>> the least.  These will have options like either
"Enable/Disable", "Enable
>> Primary" "Enable Both" or something like that. 
There may also be a line to
>> "enable/disable/auto" such pertinent items as DMA, LBA,
SMART and such.
> The BIOS has 4 lines for primary master slave, secondary master slave. Each
> line has a list with  the options of "none, auto, user type HDD,
other ATAPI,
> CD-ROM, , MO, LS-120, ZIP-100". On "auto" the BIOS says
scanning for device, up
> till now this always results in the result of "none" being
displayed. If I
> select "user HDD" I can then get a screen of options where I
can choose
> translation mode, PIO mode, Ultra-DMA mode, etc. When trying with
"user type
> HDD LBA mode the
> BIOS does not issue the scanning message and the display of peripherals list the
> primary master as "none". The Dani driver does not seem to
load, all I get is a
> line with the version number and a line that says "SYS    : End of data
> DaniS506.ADD" .
>
> The "COPY IBMS506$ con:" as shown in the DANI doc just says:
>
>   There are no more files. "X:\Danis506\IBMS506$"
>
> For those who might understand, this is the output of the dumpIDE.exe from the
> DANI package:
>
>     PCI BIOS V2.10 detected, 2 PCI buses reported.
>     PCI Bus scan: 2 PCI buses found.
>     Found legacy mode VIA 571 (1106/0571 rev 06) on 0:17.1
>     00:  06 11 71 05  00 00 90 02  06 8A 01 01  00 20 00 00
>     10:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     20:  01 B8 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     30:  00 00 00 00  C0 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 01 00 00
>     40:  08 02 09 0A  1C 10 C0 00  A8 A8 A8 A8  FF 00 B6 B6
>     50:  07 07 07 07  0C 00 00 00  A8 A8 A8 A8  00 00 00 00
>     60:  00 02 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 02 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     70:  02 01 00 00  00 00 00 00  82 01 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     80:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     90:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     A0:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     B0:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     C0:  01 00 02 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     D0:  06 00 71 05  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
>     BusMaster Registers:
>     00:  FF FF FF FF  FF FF FF FF  FF FF FF FF  FF FF FF FF
>
>     VendorID 1106, DeviceID 0571
>     IOBase      B800h (Len 10h)
>     INTA -> IRQ0
>
>     South bridge (1106/3074 rev 00) on 0:17.0
>   
Hi Andre,

Noting above that you have an IRQ0(zero) showing up - which always used
to be associated with the System timers, try turning off Plug'n'Play in
the BIOS if that is currently set, and let the BIOS allocate all the
Boot-device IRQs.

HTH

Regards,
Mike


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