[ale] hdparm fails setting DMA
David Corbin
dcorbin at machturtle.com
Sun Jul 16 19:34:15 EDT 2006
> 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
Did you see something my earlier message that says it's VIA82CXXX? Is there a
good (easy) way to figure out which a system has?
David
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