Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write: > Richard wrote: > > I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series > > for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to > > work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. > > > > The hard drive is a Seagate ST340014A, and it's plugged into the main > > IDE controller on my motherboard, a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. According to > > the manufacturer, this uses the AMD-760 MPX chipset. > > If you check lspci, I'll bet you are using a VIA interface. I have the > same problem here. It's been suggested to me that this is a kernel bug in > the VIA driver. The same person suggested that another IDE card stands a > good chance of working, and he recommended HPT (HighPoint). > > ~$ lspci > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] > <.....> > 0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
Didn't know about lspci; thanks. If I'm reading the output correctly, though, I'm not using a VIA IDE interface: [nanny-ogg:~/mail/.spools]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700c (rev 11) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700d ... 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7441 (rev 04) 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 7443 (rev 03) 00:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 01) The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the "unknown mass storage controller" line above) that has another two controllers on it. I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at all; I may attempt that later this afternoon. Alternatively, should the fact that lspci keeps saying "unknown device" worry me? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
