[ale] hdparm fails setting DMA

[J. D.]

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> >The whole reason for bringing this up is that something in gentoo is
> warning
> >me about this at startup.
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> >trombone dcorbin # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
>
> >/dev/hda:
> >Timing cached reads:   832 MB in  2.00 seconds = 415.70 MB/sec
> >Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.45 seconds =   2.90 MB/sec
>

Doh.. I think the IDE driver should set the transfer speed to the highest
supported automagically. It did on my gentoo install from last week. It
sounds like a kernel setting. Here are some of mine:
The trick is in the chipset support I think. You may want to try adjusting
your kernel to match the chipset on the motherboard.

In the "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support " section of the kernel.

<*>       Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support
[*]       Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
 <*>         VIA82CXXX chipset support
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