I don't know why the kernel shouldn't include it but I thought you should start there as that may have been the problem. Anyone else got any suggestions as to vics problem? Shaun.. "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Victor Tsaran wrote: > 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 >
