Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:25:58PM +0300, 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.
If you are using grub, try adding dma=on to
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
i.e
# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro dma=on
to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file then run update-grub, then reboot. --
any change?
--
Chris.
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