Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)
On Monday 07 April 2008 16:55:42 Brian McKee wrote:
> On 7-Apr-08, at 9:25 AM, David Baron wrote:
> > I am reposting since I have received no advice and have not found a
> > solution:
> > ----------------------------
> > After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an "aopen" MB with
> > a somewhat
> > faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and
> > 575).
> >
> > Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but
> > the DMA on
> > the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for
> > the IDEs
> > are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma "auto" or disabled. Hdparm
> > will not
> > allow -d1 either.
>
> Just a shot in the dark - but is it a good 80 pin cable? I *think*
> a 40 pin cable might cause some of those symptoms and I wondered if
> the process of swapping things around changed the cable as well....
>
> FWIW,
> Brian
>I will check this out. In fact, at the bootup when it detects the IDE
devices,
>if finds them just fine but then complains "no 80-pin cable installed"!!
>The thing played just fine on the old MB with the current cables, however.
Did
>things change sometime a while back (this is old hardware)?
OK, I have 80 pin cables now, bootup no longer complains.
Still no DMA. What now?
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