I have the impression that the Mandrake kernel group is overloaded with work. It would be interesting to know if 2.4.20 will have this problem fixed.
-- Bjarne Thomsen On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 10:43, Eric Fernandez wrote: > I have been reported this bug since the first beta, but we had no > feedback. It seems that this problem is difficult to correct, since the > IDE code is completely rewritten for the 2.5 kernel (and subsequently > the future 2.6). It seems that there are patches from Alan Cox, or Andre > Hedrick on http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/ > > I don't know if they can be applied on the mandrake kernel without > breaking other things. What is sure however is that the Salckware 8.0 > kernel has been correctly patched, and hdparm works with the i845e/g > chipsets. > > Now only mandrake programmers could answer this question, but I never > had any comment since the release of beta2 about that issue... > > Eric > > Jesper Noer Pedersen wrote: > > >Hi, > >I have a problem when enabling DMA on my HD > > > >[root@jp0101 /]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > > >/dev/hda: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > using_dma = 0 (off) > >[root@jp0101 /]# > > > >As you can see this is not working. My motherboard is a new Asus p4b533-e with > >the i845e chipset, but the controlcenter states "82801DB 845G/GL Chipset IDE > >Controller". I have tried with the 3 recent kernels kernel-2.4.19-7mdk, 8mdk > >and 9mdk. Can someone help please. > > > >Jesper Noer Pedersen > > > > > > > > > > > > >
