15 Nov
2002
15 Nov
'02
00:27
* Chris Carlen (crcarle@sandia.gov) [021114 15:47]:
I have ide=nodma on the 8.1 machine too, it seems. I think it hangs during boot too if I don't use this. Is this box incapable of DMA? I have the DMA mode set to "4" in the BIOS. Not sure if Linux even cares about that.
If you have to boot with ide=nodma or boot.idedma doesn't enable it for you then your controller is most likely "blacklisted" and can't do dma reliably. -- -ckm