Maybe by posting the "wrong" answer we can get the right one. I've found the
following in my attempts to get drives driving.
You can't mix DMA tyes on the same IDE cable. My burner was DMA 2 my hard drive could
do DMA 5 and boy they didn't mix. Seperating them seemed to fix this.
Some of the older drives, even though they are supposed to be DMA 2 don't seem to work
correctly with the new hardware and the 80 wire cables. Most notably a Fujitsu 4 gig
that used to be my windows drive.
This is what seems to be happening for me at the moment..... now, to sit back and find
out if I blew it or not *grin*.
James
On 10 Mar 2002 10:35:57 +0100
Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> El s�b, 09-03-2002 a las 19:07, Kicho escribi�:
> >
> >
> > Hello everibody, I get a problem with DMA and Mandrake 8.1
> >
> > dmesg show:
> >
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0:hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> > hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> >
> > I believe that is a commom error from serie 8.x.
> > When I mount some partition from the disk, transfer rate being at 1.1 Kbps
> >
> > Anyone can send me a way to fix this problem?
> >
> > If it is not a commmom problem and if it is not information enough, please
> > contact me and I can send information about hdparm, complete dmesg,
> > hardware instalation and configuration, bios settings, etc
> >
> > please I realy need help
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > ----
>
> I have the same problem (but not always), and I don't know how can we
> fix it, but you can run 'several times' the hdparam -d1 /dev/yourdisk at
> few seconds interval until the dma flag is set correctly (you can watch
> F12 console to see it. In my computer, the flag is set after 2-3
> attempts.).
> saludos
> �scar.
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