[ILUG] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:19:03AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Paul Jakma thought:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> > Well, as I said earlier, "Ultra DMA Enabled" in CMOS
> 
> hmmm... linux is unlikely to be lying.
> 
> > Disks are both on "auto"
> 
> so perhaps your bios doesn't like them.
> 
> also:
> 
> what kernel version?
> what IDE controller (lspci)?
 
[root at Valkerie /root]# cat /proc/pci
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro (rev 193).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
[root at Valkerie /root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5243 (rev 04)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c1)
[root at Valkerie /root]# uname -a
Linux 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55 EDT 2000 i586

> try 2.4 compiled with extra support for that controller and see what
> it thinks on boot.

I'll have to get time to do a recompile before I try that stuff.

Conor
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