Hi folks, I was forced to reinstall my PC from scratch. The installation using the monolithic image for AMD64 of some days ago went fine. But why did I had to manually comment out 'ide-generic' from /etc/modules to enable DMA? The correct IDE module for my PC would be amd74xx. It was presented together with all the other IDE modules in the installation menu. But at a regular boot of the freshly installed Debian the ide-generic module got loaded before amd74xx. And ide-generic does not support DMA, at least for my PC. (The boot disk is managed by sata_sil, i.e. it is no IDE disk, hence initrd.img does not load any IDE driver). I would suggest that ide-generic should not be tried first. It should be tried last just for the case that discover or hotplug were not able to find a working IDE driver for some hardware. Regards Harri
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