Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Rthoreau wrote: Richard Your lspci listing should not contain any unknown devices, for example below is my listing for my MP 2460. It really does not matter. All it means is the device is not in the PCI utilities database. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write: Didn't know about lspci; thanks. If I'm reading the output correctly, though, I'm not using a VIA IDE interface: [nanny-ogg:~/mail/.spools]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700c (rev

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Rthoreau did write: I have used ext3, and assume you are using ext2, what kernel parameters are you pasing to the kernel? Yes, ext2, although I'd be surprised if that makes a difference. As far as kernel parameters, the only one I'm using that looks at all relevant

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-16 Thread Rthoreau
Date: Yesterday 14:49:47 Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write: The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the unknown mass storage controller line above) that has another two controllers on it. I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at all; I

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, August 16, Rthoreau did write: Date: Yesterday 14:49:47 Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write: The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the unknown mass storage controller line above) that has another two controllers on it. I haven't yet tried

Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's release appearing increasingly imminent, I need to try to get this

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write: Richard wrote: I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. The hard drive is a Seagate

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write: The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the unknown mass storage controller line above) that has another two controllers on it. I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at all; I may attempt that later this

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Rthoreau
Date: Today 09:04:28 Greetings, all. I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's release appearing increasingly imminent, I