Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:40:18AM +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote:
> 
> I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian
> Sarge in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep
> getting DMA timeouts and retries from /dev/hda. The kernel image is
> 2.4.23-1-386 (2.4.23-1).

I had a similar problem with another system and failed to find an option
that I could use to disable it at startup.  Wound up making a custom
nodma kernel for it.

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Jamin W. Collins

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