Robert Goley wrote:
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.
Compiling the ide controller's module into the kernel is surely the most robust way to get DMA working. If you use a custom kernel anyway then I would not even think twice about it. (It is also what I do.) If you have never compiled your own kernel before, on the other hand, then this option might seem a bit complicated. A number of people have reported success with DMA when changing their initrd or using a different initrd creator. It might not work for every controller and it might depend on other things, such as the exact version of your kernel, mkinitrd vs. yaird, initramfs-tools, udev vs. hotplug, bugs that get fixed for a certain version of these packages, new bugs which are introduced, etc. See here for an example: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345374 Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
