On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 11:54 -0400, Chris Mayes wrote:
> Well, I aw this thread and realized that my problam may be with the
> motherboard rather than anything else. I have just bought an EPoX MVP3G-M
> motherboard (along with a bunch of other stuff), and both Debian and BeOS
> (which is OT, I know) have trouble getting DMA out of it. The board uses
> the Apollo MVP-3 chipset, which doesn't mean anything to me, but might
> help in the diagnostics :-) I have a WD Caviar AC38400 8.4 GB hard drive.
> It's pulled from my old system, which seemed to do DMA just fine on it.
>
> Anyway, the problem in Linux shows up when it tries to activate DMA on the
> hard drive. It just times out and goes to whatever the default is. (In
> Be, it locks up at boot time unless I disable it, but that's another story
> ;-)) So, I was wondering if there is a patch similar to the Aladdin patch
> above for the Apollo MVP3. If not, is anyone familiar enough with the
> setup to suggest BIOS or other changes? I'd be much obliged.
As I mentioned in a previous post I had problems with one of my drives,
which I couldn't set DMA on. Then when I changed memory (the supposedly
PC100 compatible memory I had been sent couldn't cope with 100MHz bus) the
problem disappeared. I have no idea why, it's just a bit bizarre. Voodoo
magic probably :)
Cheers
Dave
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