Hello, I have spent about the last week setting up the Debian AMD64 Sid port on my brand new AMD64 nforce3 box.
I was wondering if anybody can explain the following behavior. I have two ide DVD drives, one a regular ROM, the other RW. Since the ide_generic module does not support DMA, I learned that I needed the ata_piix module. That's great, but when I put both of them in my /etc/modules file, in any order, reboot, and then try to run hdparm -d1 /dev/hda for example, it refuses, says /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) The way to get it to work is to put only ata_piix in the /etc/modules file, and then, after it boot, you log in, and then do modprobe ide_generic And then, hdparm works and everything is cool. But what is the difference between putting a module in /etc/modules and loading it with modprobe after boot? Is it safe to load ide_generic only after boot, like in the /etc/profiles file? I am using the 2.6.9-9 Debian kernel image. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
