> The same comes up for hdb (i have two hard drives installed) and those 3 > messages repeat for a while and then this comes up > > Oct 30 20:45:41 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 69.256000] hda: DMA disabled > > Oct 30 20:45:41 jimin-desktop kernel: [ 69.592000] ide0: reset: success The kernel switches from DMA to PIO (slow) when it finds that the DMA isn't working properly - its attempting to keep the box running rather than just dying What controller ? - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
