But why UltraDMA? Are DMA and UltraDMA much different from each other? Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:16 PM Subject: Re: A more complete log about my disk access errors > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
