Re: [OT] DMA timeout problem]
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
> I just recently bought an Asus P5A motherboard, and as it has UDMA support,
> I thought I'd try enabling it using a patch which is available for the
> 2.2.2 kernel. Now I know that at least two other people have successfully
> used this patch (doogie and aklein on #debian). The problem is that a) one
> of my drives (hdb) performance drops to less than 2 or 3 meg/s, and if I try to
> enable DMA using hdparm on hdb I get the following messages:
I think you may need the latest hdparm to use that patch...
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
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