On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 02:27, James Bliss wrote:
(Sorry, I should have checked this before my first email).
Okay, good to hear things are almost operational, but I still think that putting a sensitive device like a CD-RW in hdb is braindead.
The DMA errors still occur. I went into my bios and attempted to turn off DMA, Ultra DMA was disabled and there was no way to turn off DMA
a) Horsehockey; the option is called something like "PIO Only" b) Linux doesn't give a rat's patoot what the BIOS is set to; if the chip is DMA-capable, and you tell the system to use DMA (hdparm), it's going to try to use DMA.
(this is a relatively new Intel board with a PIII 933 chip).
Which? `lspci -v` will do. I don't think it's an ancient hardware problem, but a buggy hardware problem. Which kernel are you running? You may have to roll your own. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | />< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com