On Sunday 12 March 2006 10:53, Chris Boot wrote: > > You're using the generic ATA driver, not the one specific for your chipset, > thus it's unlikely you'll get DMA on it at all. Judging by the fact you're > using ata_piix for your SATA hard disk, try using the piix ATA driver for > your on-board IDE. I assume you built your own kernel and forgot to enable > this driver. > Some one pointed out offline - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163418 Looks like it's a SATA combined mode problem as outlined in the above bug report. NONE of the options provided in the bug report worked for me though - :( Parag - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html