Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> > ide_pmace: wait_for_ready, error status: 51
> > pmac_ide_do_setfeature disk not ready after SET_FEATURE !
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x00 { }
> > hda: Failed !
> >
> > I have an 'alien'ized pmud 0.6.1 installed and its script
>
> You can install the pmu 0.6 deb from unstable. It doesn't make assumptions
> about config files found in RH locations. Just a s(n)ide note.
thanks, I'll purge and re-install.
> > /etc/power/pwrctrl mentions fiddling with DMA on the PB 3400:
>
> That's just turning off DMA in the IDE chipset (to keep from running
> into cache trouble later).
> Your error message looks like the disk doesn't like one of the feature set
> commands the kernel sends it. I'll have to look at the IDE driver to see
> if that's the DMA setting or some other drive command. Did you try
> hda=noautotune, and does this happen with all kernel versions?
As raf mentioned in the other reply to my org. posting, this happens
with kernel versions 2.2.15-2.2.17, but I think I sometimes had them
with 2.2.14 too, yet much less often. And it happens both with and
without hda=autotune.
Andre
