Turn on "Use DMA by default when available" and then recompile the kernel.
Thats what worked for me...
-Chris
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Nicholas Webb wrote:
> Hi:
> I was running ultra66 just fine on 7.0, then I formatted and
> upgraded to 7.1. On 7.1 the drives are detected great, but I only get
> around 5MB/sec on these drives. When doing a hdparm /dev/mydrive I find
> that dma is off . . . if I turn it on it freezes my system. If I
> recompile the kernel with DMA_AUTO it still will not turn it on at boot
> up. Any ideas?
>
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