On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 11:54:14AM -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.
I believe DMA is supported for the MVP-3 chipset in the 2.2.X kernels (and probably 2.0.37). It's not supported in 2.0.36 and below. -- Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
