On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: > But old and small ones like a 64 or 128 MB one without the e.g. Xtreme > labels from Sandisk, I have here, do not support DMA. You only need space > for /boot which is kernel, initrd and aboot.
Quite a few I have dealt with do have DMA. Short if checking it with hdparm when connected by IDE, it is often hard to find out. > You wrote: "If you disable DMA access to the HD (I forget exactly how I did > that when I installed mine), then it works fine." -- so there may be a way > to disable it. Yes there is, but if you find a CF card without DMA at all then there won't be anything to worry about which is rather handy. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
