Subject: Re: IDE in Mode 1 (Sandpoint) how ?

From: Dan Malek <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:25:44 -0500

Sarnath Kannan wrote:

> ..... But whatss troubling
> my head is, the kernel boots up fine until the NFS mount.
> Had the switch settings been wrong, the serial output
> would be slow from early bootup, right ?

Nope.  All of the kernel print out is polled I/O.

> .....  But thats
> not the case. Why should it be slow after INIT starts
> up ?

Because it uses interrupt driven serial I/O.

Believe me, all of us using Sandpoints have seen this before.
Your interrupt/arbitration routing switches on the board are wrong.

	-- Dan

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