I have the latest available firmware for my mobo....
and i want my dma . it's not dma thats the problem anyway its native dma
in non native mode it works. if i enable experimental via support in the
kernel my disk gets hosed. which is why i am now back to redhat 6.2 from
mandrake 7.0 :(
Cheerio
Robin
Nick Hill wrote:
>
> the DMA on the latest VIA mobos is bugged... disable it in u're BIOS or flash
> it with some newer firmware, if available...
>
> Nikhil.
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0530, Robin Chatterjee wrote:
> > I too am having problems with a mercury/kobian mb version bx-99. the udma
> > doesn't work . if i try to enable udma it trashes the data on my hard disk.
> > don't want to do any further experimenting after this happened twice.
> > Cheerio
> > Robin
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