Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We received such a machine and I've installed Debian
> testing/unstable on it.
> I'm running 2.4.3-pre4 and one problem I was not able to get
> solved is for DMA/UltraDMA.
> The box has a Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm 5T020H2 model and whenever I
> try to set the using_dma flag with hdparm I get an HDPIO_something not
> permitted.
> Does anyone has a clue about this? How to enable DMA in this HD.
> The chipset is i810 with Intel Host Controller (ICH). The kernel
> detects it correctly, but nothing else.
> I've tried to pass several parameters to kernel at boot with
> little success (ide0=dma idebus=66 hda=autotune), that is, the bus speed
> was set to 66MHz but DMA and PIO optimization were ignored at all, or at
> least not set.
Check your kernel config in /boot and see if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA is set
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