Niall O Broin wrote:
> ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> hda: IBM-DJNA-370910, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdc: CD-532E-B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: IBM-DTTA-351680, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: IBM-DJNA-370910, 8693MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=1108/255/63
> hdd: IBM-DTTA-351680, 16124MB w/462kB Cache, CHS=32760/16/63
>> I don't know what the DMA disabled (BIOS) is about as I have IDE Ultra DMA
> set to AUTO (only other choice is off)
Here's a thought: The BIOS looked at the IDE buses and saw a CDROM drive
on one and a ZIP drive on the other and decided neither would like
UltraDMA.
Try putting both drives on the one channel - or diabling the ATAPI
devices temporarily.
Paul.
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