I would like to know the trick about loading earlier that you are talking about. I load all main drivers from the initrd. You must for all boot hardware anyway. My experience is that if it is built as a module, hdparm will not be allowed to change DMA settings.
Robert On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 16:57 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Leonardo Boselli wrote: > > [I am not subscribed to this list, so please reply to my own address] > > I have a HP ZV6100 . I have installed debian serge, then updated to etch. > > but either with 2.6.8 or 2.6.15, k7 or 486 i am unable to activate dma and > > in turn the computer freeze almost completely during disk access > > (expecailly if i download large files from a fast lan server). > > The hardware is fine since if i use a 2.6.12 from ububntu the dma is > > correctly activated and i can also activcate/deactivate it with hdparm. > > Any hint ? possible kernel personalization to get it to woik ? > > This can happen when your IDE controller's module is not loaded early > enough during boot. I think you need the module "atiixp", but you have > to check yourself with "lspci" (look for "IDE interface: ..."). You can > then either compile a custom kernel with the driver included statically, > or you can add the module to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and use > "dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-xxx" to rebuild your initrd with > the module. Sometimes it can also be necessary to explicitly include the > module "ide_generic" in /etc/mkinitrd/modules, but then it should > probably be listed after (below) the specific module of the IDE controller. > > Regards, > Florian > > P.S. If you need more detailed instructions just ask, but please keep > the discussion on the list and don't send separate copies to my email > address. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
