Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Shawn Tanner <Shawn.Tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been unable to enable DMA on my DVD drive which is attached to the 
primary ide as with nothing else.  I have tried enabling it using the DMA 
module in the hardware section of Yast 2 and I have tried adding hda to the 
"FORCE_DMA_ON" section in the sysconfig editor and neither method has worked.  
I get the error message "dev/dev:  Input/output error.  mount: I could not 
determine the filesystem type, and none was specified.  I AM able to enable 
DMA on my cdr which is attached to the secondary IDE as the master with an 
Iomega zip as the slave and can mount it successfully. 

I previously have had Mandrake 8.2 and Gentoo installed and DMA was enabled by 
default and worked for this drive.  In gentoo all I had to do was make sure 
that support for my via chipset was compiled into the kernal and DMA was 
utilized automatically.  I don't undersand why I can't get dma to work in 
Suse.

Please help so I don't have to go back to Mandrake.  I would go back to Gentoo 
but it is too much work.

thanks