On 4/20/05, Jim Wiggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I've got a box built on the ASUS K8N-E Deluxe motherboard, and I absolutely > can not get DMA working on my hard drives. I am running the Debian 2.6.11 > kernel, to which I have applied the fixes suggested at: > > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0301/KnownProblems.html > > But no joy. My only clue is that there are dmesg log messages which seem > to suggest that by the time the NFORCE driver loads, the generic IDE drivers > have already grabbed control of the ide interfaces (NFORCE3-250: "port 0x01f0 > already claimed by ide0"). But how do I prevent this from happening?
I had the same problem, and I had to compile the DMA driver into the kernel to get it working. It seems that some DMA drivers have to activate DMA during the boot process. Thomas
