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@@ -71,29 +71,6 @@ This driver automatically probes for most IDE interfaces (including all PCI
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ones), for the drives/geometries attached to those interfaces, and for the IRQ
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lines being used by the interfaces (normally 14, 15 for ide0/ide1).
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-For special cases, interfaces may be specified using kernel "command line"
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-options. For example,
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- ide3=0x168,0x36e,10 /* ioports 0x168-0x16f,0x36e, irq 10 */
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-Normally the irq number need not be specified, as ide.c will probe for it:
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- ide3=0x168,0x36e /* ioports 0x168-0x16f,0x36e */
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-The standard port, and irq values are these:
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- ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14
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- ide1=0x170,0x376,15
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- ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11
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- ide3=0x168,0x36e,10
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-Note that the first parameter reserves 8 contiguous ioports, whereas the
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-second value denotes a single ioport. If in doubt, do a 'cat /proc/ioports'.
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-In all probability the device uses these ports and IRQs if it is attached
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-to the appropriate ide channel. Pass the parameter for the correct ide
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-channel to the kernel, as explained above.
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Any number of interfaces may share a single IRQ if necessary, at a slight
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performance penalty, whether on separate cards or a single VLB card.
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The IDE driver automatically detects and handles this. However, this may
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@@ -199,7 +176,7 @@ When ide.c is used as a module, you can pass command line parameters to the
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driver using the "options=" keyword to insmod, while replacing any ',' with
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';'. For example:
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- insmod ide.o options="ide0=serialize ide1=serialize ide2=0x1e8;0x3ee;11"
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+ insmod ide.o options="hda=nodma hdb=nodma"
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@@ -240,14 +217,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
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As for VLB, it is safest to not specify it.
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Bigger values are safer than smaller ones.
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- "idex=base" : probe for an interface at the addr specified,
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- where "base" is usually 0x1f0 or 0x170
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- and "ctl" is assumed to be "base"+0x206
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- "idex=base,ctl" : specify both base and ctl
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- "idex=base,ctl,irq" : specify base, ctl, and irq number
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"idex=serialize" : do not overlap operations on idex. Please note
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that you will have to specify this option for
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both the respective primary and secondary channel
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