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Re: Problems setting DMA



On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:43:51PM -0200, Leonardo Dias wrote: 

> Have any of you guys ever had a problem setting DMA to a PC?

Some minor problems.
 
> I know it's not Debian specific. Only that I'm trying to set DMA both my
> IDE drives and none of them work. It should be BIOS-related. I've
> already set everything I could, but I have no idea whether this was
> supposed to work.

Does your system say something like "DMA disabled by BIOS" during
boot?

> It's able do DMA. It's even able to UDMA. It's not working, though...

What devices are hanging on the same controller?
What does #hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc say?
Phil



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