Hi. This is just a really far out guess, but I've noticed a lot of
additional options in later kernels for IDE chipsets. Could your
problem be you haven't enabled the right one for your drive? Or, could
it be you might have the support for a chipset enabled that keeps your
drive from using DMA? On this system I have the support for Intell
chipsets disabled since I have a VIA chipset. This box appears to be
using DMA for the hard drive as well as the cdrom.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:32:33AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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> My disks also tell me that DMA is not supported when I try to set
> it with hdparm. They used to support it several kernel upgrades
> ago. Each is a 40 GB disk, one Seagate and one Western Digital,
> and my CPU is a 1.4 GHz Athlon. I do not recognize any kernel
> compile options that might be at fault, and the hdparm output is
> not all that helpful.
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