On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:26, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Trying to get Linux going on an old Compaq Armada 7800 (PII-266) with > SuSE 9.2. The disks originally sold with the laptop are 5GB IBM ones, > and they work just fine, IDE DMA and all. With a 20GB Fujitsu disk, disk > DMA simply doesn't work and the kernel disables it. The system on the > 20GB disk was installed by copying the 5GB's contents and installing a > boot loader. The kernel is therefore identical. It's one of those > BIOS-on-harddisk jobs, but I can't find a setting for it. Does it ring a > bell with anyone on how to get DMA functional?
I had trouble getting a 20Gb to run properly in my Compaq Armada until I gave it a bios upgrade. http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/download/8412.html You can query the drive with hdparm -viI /dev/hda (that's v small i capital i) and turn dma on with hdparm -d1 /dev/hda Cheers, Wayne
