grub ide=nodma  not working
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- Subject: grub ide=nodma  not working
 
- From: geoff <geoffhp@gmail.com>
 
- Date: Mon,  9 Apr 2007 23:40:00 +0200 (CEST)
 
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I'm also seeing the same issue with the Debian 4.0 Release (Etch).  I have a custom Celeron based SBC with an IDE CF slot as the primary drive.  The board itself does not support DMA, so I've been using the 'ide=nodma' boot parameter with RedHat 9.0 and Debian Sarge.  On these older distributions, the nodma parameter works fine for both DMA and non-DMA enabled CF cards.
The only thing I'm doing different with my Etch based card is that I'm using a kernel wit in initrd enabled.   I'll try without to see if that helps.
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