I remember seeing a message on lkml that this is fixed in 2.4.20-pre7.
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:12, Ibukun Olumuyiwa wrote:
> No, I don't have a solution to the DMA problem yet. I remember trying
> hdparm, but not even hdparm could enable DMA on the hard drive (try it --
> it will refuse. weird.)
>
> I haven't spent much time on this though...I was thinking of recompiling
> the kernel and using a generic driver rather than the intel driver which
> it is probably using.
>
> Ibukun
>
> On Tue 01 Oct 2002, Philipp H?felfinger @ Tiscalinet wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > Am Die, 2002-10-01 um 08.53 schrieb Ibukun Olumuyiwa:
> > > I also had IDE problems...especially with the system seizing
> > > intermittently during hard disk writes, and an indication that the
> > > system was unable to turn on DMA.
> >
> > How did you solve this DMA problems? Do you have a patch that works...
> > I tried the latest prepatch for kernel 2.4.20 but the problem wasn't
> > solved.
> >
> > cu
> >
> > Philipp
> >
> >
> >
>
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