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Re: hda timeout waiting for DMA?



On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:01:04AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> 
> i find this very odd, considering that i haven't made any modifications to
> this particular system in several months. however
> 
> hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda
> 
> and the message has stopped appearing.  this particular drive shouldn't
> have been configured to use dma anyway, so disabling dma makes perfect
> sense.
Is it a western digital?  Really old?  Do you have an unsupported chipset?

Maybe we can get you using some form of dma with this drive.

Post the output of lspci.
Post the output of hdparm -i /dev/hda

Mike



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