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25.Dd August 31, 2007
26.Dt VIAIDE 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm viaide
30.Nd AMD, NVIDIA and VIA IDE disk controllers driver
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Cd "viaide* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000"
33.Cd "options PCIIDE_AMD756_ENABLEDMA"
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37driver supports the following IDE controllers
38and provides the interface with the hardware for the
39.Ic ata
40driver:
41.Bl -dash -compact -offset indent
42.It
43Advanced Micro Devices AMD-756, 766, 768 and CS5536 IDE Controllers
44.It
45NVIDIA nForce, nForce2, nForce2 400, nForce3, nForce3 250,
46nForce4, MCP04, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67 IDE and SATA Controllers.
47.It
48VIA Technologies VT82C586, VT82C586A, VT82C596A, VT82C686A, VT8233A,
49VT8235, VT8237/VT8237R IDE Controllers, VT6421 Serial RAID Controller and
50CX700 IDE Controller.
51.El
52.Pp
53The 0x0002 flag forces the
54.Nm
55driver to disable DMA on chipsets for which DMA would normally be
56enabled.
57This can be used as a debugging aid, or to work around
58problems where the IDE controller is wired up to the system incorrectly.
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr ata 4 ,
61.Xr atapi 4 ,
62.Xr intro 4 ,
63.Xr pci 4 ,
64.Xr pciide 4 ,
65.Xr wd 4 ,
66.Xr wdc 4
67.Sh NOTES
68Drives on the VT6421 Serial RAID Controller can only be accessed
69after they have been configured into RAID or JBOD sets via its
70BIOS.
71It is also inaptly named as it has both SATA and PATA interfaces.
72.Sh BUGS
73The AMD756 chip revision D2 has a bug affecting DMA (but not Ultra-DMA)
74modes.
75The workaround documented by AMD is to not use DMA on any drive which
76does not support Ultra-DMA modes.
77This does not appear to be necessary on all drives, the
78PCIIDE_AMD756_ENABLEDMA option can be used to force multiword DMA
79on the buggy revisions.
80Multiword DMA can eventually be disabled on a
81per-drive basis with config flags, see
82.Xr wd 4 .
83The bug, if triggered, will cause a total system hang.
84.Pp
85The timings used for the PIO and DMA modes for controllers listed above
86are for a PCI bus running at 30 or 33 MHz.
87This driver may not work properly on overclocked systems.
88