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EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 30.01.2008, 23:41

> Anyway could someone else send me a logs from other HW?

Here's one (a 160 GB SATA drive):

EDD BIOS/INT13h Extension Info 1.0 (C) 2008 by Martin Rehak; rayer^seznam*cz
Compiled by Borland C++ 4.52 at 04:59:02, Jan 29 2008

EDD version: 3.0
EDD features: Fixed disk access, EDD support
EDD flags: 0000h
Physical drive #0 geometry LBA sectors: 312581808 (160 GB), sector=512 B
Host bus: PCI , Interface type: ATA     
Device Path Information: present [OK]
Interface path: PCI bus: 0, device: 31, function block: 2, channel: 0
Device path: master
Device Parameter Table Extension pointer: F000:B7B0h
DPTE revision: 1.1 [OK]
DPTE flags: 0015h
Controller I/O base address: DC00h, control port: D802h
IRQ: 5, DMA channel: 0
PIO mode: 4, Ultra DMA: disabled
32-bit transfer mode: disabled, LBA: enabled, LBA48: disabled
ATA read/write multiple command max sectors: 16, enabled
ATAPI: no, uses command packet interrupt: no, nonremovable media
Host Protected Area: inactive

(It claims UDMA disabled, but I know for sure that it was enabled).

> BTW I wonder that my PC at home (ICH7 controller) reported DMA channel: 8
> isn't it too high number?

UDMA doesn't use the legacy DMA controller. So I doubt this dma channel information has much meaning.

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - RayeR, 29.01.2008, 18:32 (Announce)
  • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - RayeR, 29.01.2008, 18:33
  • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - rr, 29.01.2008, 22:29
    • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - RayeR, 30.01.2008, 18:53
      • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - rr, 30.01.2008, 22:46
        • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - RayeR, 30.01.2008, 23:03
      • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - Japheth, 30.01.2008, 23:41
        • EDDINFO final ver. 1.0 - RayeR, 31.01.2008, 01:10