[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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