Re: K8N-E Deluxe: No DMA on IDE Disks

[Thomas Steffen <steffen.list.account@gmail.com>]

On 4/20/05, Jim Wiggs <jim.wiggs@gmail.com> wrote:
>    Mission accomplished!  I had to set a bunch of stuff under ATA
> drivers to compile into the kernel before it would even *allow* me
> to compile amd74xx as anything other than a module, 

Yes, there must be about 5 conditions set on it :-) and of course you
have to find them yourself.

> but once
> that was done, I got a kernel which booted and gave me DMA on
> hda and hdc.

Great. 

Since this seems to be a common problem, should we try to get the
documentation updated? It should at least suggest that it may not work
as a module.

Thomas