Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 Version: 2.6.8-10 Severity: normal I have a motherboard with an nForce2 chipset (ASUS A7N8X Deluxe). Using the stock Debian kernel, I cannot enable DMA on the /dev/hda hard disk.
# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda gives HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted As I have learned through googling, the problem appears to be that the driver for this chipset (amd74xx) is loaded too late when the generic IDE driver has already taken control of the hard disk. I was able to get it working by recompiling the kernel with amd74xx and everything it depends on as a static part (not a module). I don't think this is the normal solution, though. I hope you can figure out a better way. SuSE 8.2 gets this right out of the box, by the way. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7-nforce2 [the one I compiled myself] Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.76 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
