ultra dma for some reason is faster than dma. Ultra dma has a start off running speed of 33 mhz and is supposed to make disk access a lot faster. would be better if you had a dma 66 though. <grin>. 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 Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Victor Tsaran wrote: > But why UltraDMA? Are DMA and UltraDMA much different from each other? > Vic > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt at megsinet.net> > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
