> The question is why DMA would have been disabled in the first place ? > > The kernel is enabling DMA by default on all devices that support it > connected to the Apple IDE interface.
On my Lombard, I see DMA getting enabled sometime during running of the
initscripts, so it seems to get delayed a lot (the kernel is a couple of
weeks old). I can check the logs to see what it correlates with, if that
helps.
Michael
