Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

[James Vahn <jvahn@short.circuit.com>]

Richard wrote:
> I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series
> for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to
> work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series.
>
> The hard drive is a Seagate ST340014A, and it's plugged into the main
> IDE controller on my motherboard, a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466.  According to
> the manufacturer, this uses the AMD-760 MPX chipset.

If you check lspci, I'll bet you are using a VIA interface. I have the
same problem here. It's been suggested to me that this is a kernel bug in
the VIA driver. The same person suggested that another IDE card stands a
good chance of working, and he recommended HPT (HighPoint).

 ~$ lspci
  0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P]
   <.....>
  0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
   VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)