On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:38, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestiss� Keskiviikko 30 Hein�kuu 2003 23:23, Eric Fesler kirjoitti: > > Hi, > > > > I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9.1 and I've got > > several issues: > > > > I'm using the kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise > > > > 1�) The harddisk is really slow : hdparm shows a transfer rate of > > 3.5Mb/s > > > > I tried to activate the dma using the command: > > hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc > > > > and I got the following output: > > /dev/hdc: > > setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > > using_dma = 0 (off) > > > > 2�) If I switch ACPI on in lilo.conf, the PC just freeze after having > > loaded the kernel > > I trued to recompile without APM and without APIC but then the PC reboot > > after having loaded the kernel > > > > Any ideas how I can solve those issues. Issue 1 is the most important up > > to now. > > > > get the latest security update kernel: > linux-2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise > > and try again ;-) > > Thomas > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ I did it already and I've got the same message.
I try with a 2.4.20 kernel (from kernel.org) and there it works !! (but I have some hardware issues). Is there an issue with DMA in 2.4.21? --Eric
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