AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[Corbett Battaile]

I haven't tried that, but it's definitely worth a shot. Thanks for the 
suggestion. I just bought the cards a few days ago, so it's likely that 
they have the latest firmware, but you never know...


--On 11/19/04 6:38 AM -0800 Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>
> 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>
>
>
> --- 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


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Corbett Battaile <ccb at ydl.net>