AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[Norberto Quintanar]

--- Corbett Battaile <ccb at ydl.net> wrote:

> Good to know - thanks for the info! If I get a chance, I might try
> some 
> benchmarks with and without DMA enabled.
> 
> I may also try a Sonnet Tempo 133 card. Based on the board layout,
> it 
> appears to be a Promise chip, and presumably the BIOS is more Mac
> friendly 
> so hopefully I'll be able to leave DMA enabled without getting any
> errors.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with the Sonnet ATA133 card(s) on
> recent 
> kernels? My main concern stems from my experience with Sonnet's
> Presto 
> Gigabit NIC, which is based on a Realtek R8169 chip. Before I
> bought my 
> Presto GigE, I emailed Sonnet tech support to ask if the Presto is 
> compatible with YDL. They didn't know. Turns out, I couldn't get
> the Presto 
> to work with YDL, although it works fine with Redhat. Apple's
> BCM5703 and 
> Intel's Pro1000 cards work great with YDL, though. (The former
> requires 
> building and installing the bcm5700 modules for best performance.)
> 
> Thanks again,
> - Corbett

Here's a dicey suggestion.  Have you flashed the PCI card's bios with
the latest firmware for your card available at:
<http://www.acard.com/eng/menu/support.html>
and at 
<http://www.acard.com/eng/support/mac.html>


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