Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

[Andreas Goesele <Goesele@hfph.mwn.de>]

Alf Werder <awerder@gmx.de> writes:

> > It's even worse:
> > 
> > $ modprobe amd74xx
> > Segmentation fault
> > 
> > And now I have:
> > 
> > amd74xx                 9468   1  (initializing)
> > 
> > The module cannot be removed and interferes with other processes as
> > for instance ifconfig (which get's stuck and can't be killed
> > ...). Very bad.
> 
> Mmh ... maybe AMD-756 (seven,*five*, ...) is something different then
> AMD74xx (seven, *four*, ...). Just my two cents.

Well, from /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.c

 * Version 2.10
 *
 * AMD 755/756/766/8111 and nVidia nForce IDE driver for Linux.

That looks rather like what I should need.

But many thanks for the suggestion!

Andreas Goesele

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