First, understand why Windows 2000 doesn't complain about the DMA. If the drive times out twice (ever) then it no longer uses DMA ever. So it won't complain. It won't tell you. In fact, win winclows 98 they burried any indication that this had happened. It happens more often them many people realize. Having said that, if you didn't have DMA support compiled into the kernel you wouldn't get the errors. Yes, it must be compiled in if it is to be used. (DMA falls back to PIO in case of failure and PIO always remains available.) As for fixing this, it is either the motherboard or the drive. I know that doesn't help. You might check to see that DMA is turned on in the BIOS. (Linux will try anyway, winblows just acts like it is using DMA and doesn't really.) Otherwise try another DMA drive and see if the problem resolves. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
