I tried looking for ide channels in the BIOS but I found not such things!! --- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your BIOS see if you have both IDE channels > (primary and seconday) > enabled. For some systems you can't set the DMA for > one channel unless boht > are enabled in the BIOS. Once you do that hdparm > will work. You can see it > on boot up - the messages list dma as being used. > > DMA is a faster way of transferring data - direct > memory access. > > > > Someone suggested this: > > # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > # /etc/init.d/hdparm start > > # rc-update add hdparm default > > So I did it, then restarted but nope, same error. > > > > Then I checked what Owen said, but those were > compiled > > into the kernel already. > > > > Anyone wanna tell me what dma is anyway? Do I need > it? > > If not then who cares about the warning! > > > > --- Owen Gunden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:08:48PM -0700, Gzim > Hoxha > > > > > > wrote: > > > > When gentoo boots it says: > > > > Warning: dma on you harddrive is turned off. > > > > .... > > > > > > > > How do I turn it on? > > > > > > Maybe this is a long shot, but.. > > > > > > I had this problem immediately after I > recompiled a > > > kernel. I had > > > accidentally turned off "Generic PCI IDE chipset > > > support" and "Use PCI DMA > > > by default when available" (under IDE, ATA and > ATAPI > > > Block devices in > > > menuconfig). > > > > > > After turning that back on, the warning went > away, > > > and no hdparm required. > > > > > > Owen > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > -- > > Brett I. Holcomb > AKA Grunt <>< > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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