Hi Mark
greets to taupo.
you're encountering one of the kernel's features - there is a compile time
option to avoid encountering this 'problem', but then you'll need to have
a running system before you can recompile.
i'd say the chances are good that the bios suggestions should work (but
these aren't optimal as you'll want to make use of dma features, no?) so
i'd try those and if they work do the install and then make compiling a
new kernel for the box your first priority.
*if* the bios fixes don't work i'd try doing the install using another
kernel - isn't there a choice of kernels to use when installing red hat
these days?
someone?
anyway hth in some way.
cheers
peter
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:10:59 +1300
Patrick Jordan-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 22:20, Mark Carey wrote:
>
> > --------------
> > <4>hda:timeout waiting for DMA
> > <4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout funct only:14
> > <4>hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
> > --------------
> > Disk: 4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot
>
> Bigfoots are crap, but they generally work, they are just slow. The
> problem here is that DMA is failing. If you have the option, turn it off
> in the BIOS (IDE DMA.) That should solve the problem. If there is no
> option to turn it off in the BIOS, you might have to go poke round the
> redhat site to find a option to disable it/or it may be a kernel option
> you can pass on the boot command line - this is more likely. Utilise
> linuxdoc.org
>
>
> Pat
>
>
>
