Hi Vic, Yeah, I'd say also to check if you have ultra dma support in your kernel. Greg On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:44:19PM -0100, Victor Tsaran wrote: Content-Description: message body text > Hello, listers! > I hope those of you who are experts in kernel bugs or interaction of kernel > with the hardware can help me with this. Since I installed Redhat 7.1 I > started to get the messages that RedHat cannot communicate through DMA with > my hard drives. I know for sure that my hard drives can communicate through > DMA, plus I was never getting similar messages before. Shon suggested for > me to check whether UltraDMA support was compiled into my kernel, but I, > firstly, do not understand why it should be included into kernel, and > secondly, why would Redhat ignore including UltraDMA support in the first > place. > Iam therefore attaching the complete log from the messages buffer ring > produced by the `dmesg' command. > Please let me know if you have any idea and where should I look for > possible solutions. > WIndows 2000 is very happy about my drives, whereas Linux complains about > them. However, after kernel disables DMA transfer mode, it goes pretty > fine. Please ignore any messages about SWAP... > Best and thanks in advance, > Vic
