>After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an "aopen" MB with a >somewhat >faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and 575).
>Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on >the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for the IDEs >are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma "auto" or disabled. Hdparm will not >allow -d1 either. >* * * No, it was not the BIOS. Those alternatives are correct. No, it was not the cables even though putting in the 80-pin cable is more up-to-date and the bootup no longer complains about that. The MB is a via chipset. Ide-generic, compiled into the kernel, is not compatible with this. So I compiled the kernel with the via module compiled in, leaving the generic as a module in case it is needed as well (not using an initrd but would be needed there as well, i think). A few trepidations here but it boot up just fine and no more complaints about DMA. Phew! I can breathe again :-) (There were several googled items citing this as the only solution.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
