Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14
Alvin Oga wrote:
>>I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much
>>rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module
>>tainting my kernel.
> if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide,
> than too late .... you have no choice if you want [u]dma mode
> otherwise, you're stuck in ata-33 mode w/o dma even if your disk
> is superfast 15K rpm ata-133 disks
As Wackojacko said, the normal open source module in the stock kernel
supports DMA. I have had the motherboard for 2,5 years and have had no
problems with DMA up until 2.6.14.
Andro
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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science
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