On Thursday, 28.04.2005 at 09:37 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > The error you are reporting suggests to me that your IDE > > *controller* is not properly supported by your current kernel? > > > > Can you show us the results of 'lspci' and 'uname -r' > > The result of uname -r is 2.6.8. I compiled this kernel from the > latest Debian kernel-source-2.6.8. Hmmm ... maybe your custom kernel config excluded the option for your IDE controller. Any reason why you're not using a stock Debian kernel? When you configured your own kernel, which config did you 'start' with, before modifying it? > The result of lspci is: > > 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. This looks like a pretty common controller and is certainly supported. > If the kernel does not support this IDE controller, what next? A new > motherboard? Not so much "the kernel", but maybe "*your* kernel" :-) I'd suggest trying a stock Debian kernel and see if you get better results that way. Alternatively, try booting up with a Knoppix CD or something like that, and see if your drive gets DMA-enabled properly. If so, then the problem is with your custom kernel. BTW I'm not 'criticising' your custom kernel config: it just seems that is the most obvious thing to check and if it's *not* the problem, at least needs to be eliminated as a possibility. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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