Bug#439295: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: System fails to boot

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Vesa Savolainen wrote:
> OK. Maybe these filesystem labels could also be used in the /etc/fstab entries? 
> 
> >That looks to me like it decided your drive was UDMA/100 and configured
> >for it correctly. What makes you say it didn't enable dma?
> 
> Well, that's just what hdparm seems to say:
> # hdparm -d1 /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Does DMA work properly with more recent kernels?

Cheers,
        Moritz