Hi I just received another reply from WD (after my repeated enquiry) - now they say my disk DOES support DMA... So, either - something is wrong with my kernel configuration / hdparm usage / kernel boot parameters / whatever else... OR BIOS... Which I don't know how to bypass... Regards Guennadi On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Did you set the autodma kernel flag? > If not pass ide0=dma and ide1=dma. > Also you need to enable the PIIX_TUNING > > Cheers, ___ Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski Department of Applied Mathematics University of Sheffield, U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
