Hi all, Mainboardcontroller: udma100 , Harddisk: udma133 , SuSE9.0 when booting the message : "the dma on your harddrive is turned off. This may really slow down the fsck process" always appears twice I tried different settings in Yast dma on dma100 dma133 - the message is always the same. What is even worse : One of three bootings fails with the msg: Setting up the CMOS clock hda lost interrupt. 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 ? best regards C. Emden
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
On Thursday 18 December 2003 20:51, Richard Atcheson wrote:
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?
Hi, Board is a asus A7A266 ALi MAGiK1 DDR chipset 1647 thanks a lot - I wouldn't have been able to locate the cause - it seems to be a known problem. ( http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.1/1439.html ) Maybe Kernel 2.6 will help. regards C. Emden
On Thursday 18 December 2003 02:49 pm, C. Emden wrote:
On Thursday 18 December 2003 20:51, Richard Atcheson wrote:
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?
Hi,
Board is a asus A7A266 ALi MAGiK1 DDR chipset 1647
thanks a lot - I wouldn't have been able to locate the cause - it seems to be a known problem. ( http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.1/1439.html )
Hi again, I just tried the knoppix cd I recently made. It uses some Debian kernel 2.4.22 and it allows me to set the dma on my Compaq. So as far as I'm concerned the SuSE kernel is the problem. You might give that a try and see if your machine will do dma with Knoppix. Now I wonder how difficult and how much I will screw up by copying the Knoppix kernel over to my hd.... Bet you I find out real quick! regards, Richard
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