Re: Can't enable DMA

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Anthony" == Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> writes:

    Anthony> On 18 Jul 2003, John Little wrote:
    >> >I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2
    >> m/board and Maxtor >30GB ATA133 hard disk.  >I tried switching
    >> on DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda but got the following >error
    >> message:
    >> >
    >> >HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
    >> >

    Anthony> [snip]

    Anthony> Not sure if this will help, but with a VIA chipset I had
    Anthony> to enable

    Anthony> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y

    Anthony> to get DMA to work.

FYI to the original poster this option is set in 2.4.18-bf2.4.

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/kernel-config

Cheers!
Shyamal