On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:25:58PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > I am reposting since I have received no advice and have not found a solution: > ---------------------------- > After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an "aopen" MB with a > somewhat > faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and 575). > > Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on > the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for the IDEs > are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma "auto" or disabled. Hdparm will not > allow -d1 either.
If you are using grub, try adding dma=on to ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro i.e # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro dma=on to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file then run update-grub, then reboot. -- any change? -- Chris. ====== If you are not subscribed, ask to be CC'd as the Policy of this list is to reply to the list only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]