On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33 am, C. Emden wrote:
Exactly the same hardware combination made no dma probs at all with SuSE 8.1 & 8.2.
What am I doing wrong / which additional information should I post ?
Probably nothing! What is your motherboard chipset? If you have something like mine, the kernel is the problem. It doesnt support your chipset for DMA. On my compaq presario 1260 kernel 2.4.19 worked fine but the later kernels omitted support for my OPTI 82C825 IDE chipset. The response I got from the kernel group was: Do you have OPTI621 IDE driver compiled-in? [ Yes, I've just noticed it, help entry needs fixing. ] Which leads me to believe I must recompile the kernel to get dma support. Havent done it yet. I did check my kernel config and the support for OPTI is not included. So good luck. If you find a simpler solution please let me know. Richard