Re: Enable DMA on a Travelmate 8005

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:43 +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi,
> i would like to enable DMA on my laptop (with a Intel 855GME chipset) 
<snip>
> /dev/hda:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma	=  0 (off)
> 
> Maybe i've got some IDE module missing?

i had to compile in (=Y) the correct kernel option. compiling it as a
module (=M) and loading it did not work to get DMA working. so maybe try
that.

-matt zagrabelny