Re: Problem installing debian on alpha personal workstation
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> But old and small ones like a 64 or 128 MB one without the e.g. Xtreme
> labels from Sandisk, I have here, do not support DMA. You only need space
> for /boot which is kernel, initrd and aboot.
Quite a few I have dealt with do have DMA. Short if checking it with
hdparm when connected by IDE, it is often hard to find out.
> You wrote: "If you disable DMA access to the HD (I forget exactly how I did
> that when I installed mine), then it works fine." -- so there may be a way
> to disable it.
Yes there is, but if you find a CF card without DMA at all then there
won't be anything to worry about which is rather handy.
--
Len Sorensen
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