Re: CDROM and harddisk fighting over DMA

2001-03-20 Thread Shawn Starr
Some CDROMS can do this, My old Acer 12x cdrom was fighting with DMA with my new Fujitsu drive, I disabled the cd-rom and no more DMA errors ;-) You might also be able to fix this by rearranging the CD-ROM and drives: move the CD-ROM off the HD's IDE chain and put it separate (if its not already

CDROM and harddisk fighting over DMA

2001-03-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
(I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel, so please CC any answers. TIA) Hello Since I bought my new harddisk (a Maxtor 40GB of about a half year old now), I've had errors over my console like this: hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: irq ti