[ale] hdparm fails setting DMA

[Dow_Hurst]

You look at the motherboard spec online.  That will usually get you the basic chipset info.  Double checking with lspci like JD says is a good idea.  One of the live distro's like MEPIS or Knoppix will usually tell you via hardware detection what you have as well.  Just look at the dmesg output while or after you boot.
Dow



-----Original Message-----
>From: David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>
>Sent: Jul 16, 2006 7:34 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] hdparm fails setting DMA
>
>> 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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