Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:47 +0000, Ben Whyte wrote:
I am using the defualt debian kernel 2.6.15.
Any ideas as to why it wont let me activate DMA ?
Ben
I have had this problem on a few machines, try this
Add piix to your /etc/modules file, it may have to appear before any IDE modules you may already have in there.
Somebody else told be that I should also be adding ide-core as well, but I don't seem to need it here.
reboot and you should find that DMA should now work.
Once you are happy it works you can edit the /etc/hdparm.conf file to enable it on boot.
the same somebody else also told be that you can't change the DMA status of a mounted filesystem, but I am pretty sure that is not true...that being the case the hdparm.conf mods would fix it anyway.
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Doesnt seem to make any difference it still comes back with the same error
I installed a stable 2.6.8 and it works, but lots of other stuff is broken. However dmesg contains a different id section for the ide controller.
Ben