Re: 1.0.1 doesn't work with SGI1100

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Sep 2001 19:24:15 -0700, 
Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>ide=nodma solves the problem for the installer. But, after the install,
>when the system comes up for the first time, it's the same problem: it's
>frozen when it tries to mount large partitions.
>I can add to the kickstart file, to the lilo option, the "--append
>ide=nodma" string, and it appears to solve the problem. But, still, if i
>want a high performance from that system (and believe me, i do want
>that, since it's gonna be a busy mail gateway), not using DMA will hurt
>performance.

It is likely to be a chipset problem rather than XFS.  RH 7.1 was
probably compiled without CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO.