AW: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Liebich Wolfgang
Hi, > > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > >Hi, > >First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos' > >chipset into kernel-config. --snip-- This "support for your mobo chipset" is crucial. The chipset support must be compiled statically into the kernel, not as a module! I had a similar p

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
I'm starting to believe that it has something to do with some option in the kernel that is not enabled. I just swap the CD/RW Plextor from the machine that is working OK on kernel 2.6.11 (where DMA is enabled and everything is working, CD/RW, except eject - but that is another story) into a new New

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:19:46 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: My system has two SATA WD Raptors for hard disks. I'm trying to get DMA working for the DVD writer which is IDE. I'd just like to eliminate the occasionaly hiccup when playing DVDs. This makes it more likely that th

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:19:46 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > My system has two SATA WD Raptors for hard disks. I'm > trying to get DMA working for the DVD writer which is IDE. > I'd just like to eliminate the occasionaly hiccup when playing > DVDs. This makes it more likely that the problem is lack o

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Joseph wrote: I have tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd but it is not accepting the it. I can not set DMA on this DVD I just called BenQ and they don't support Linux; so don't buy BenQ products as they don't support Linux. In example of DVD/writer it will become plain CD reader. Without DMA access th

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Roy Wright wrote: -snip- > I'm having the same issue with a Memorex DVD writer. > Googling suggests making sure the IDE controller > chipset module is loaded. My problem is that I don't > see a config module option for Intel 82801EB (ICH5). > Yes u are right, IMO it has nothing to do with CD/D

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Roy Wright
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi Roy, Just guessing here but seems you have SATA drives not IDE, don't use/know much about SATA yet ;) but maybe this have something to do with the error on activating DMA, from the logs your hard-disk *is* using UDMA-133 & PIO4 ? Could check BIOS-settings, other thoughts he

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:25 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > royw-gentoo linux # dmesg | grep -i dma > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 > ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 145226112 sectors: lba48 > ata1: dev 1 ATA, max UDMA/133, 14522611

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
Roy Wright wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > >> Hi, >> First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos' >> chipset into kernel-config. >> Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' >> file. >> Ex.(mine): >> hda_args="-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64" // this is for my

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Roy Wright
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos' chipset into kernel-config. Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' file. Ex.(mine): hda_args="-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64" // this is for my hard disk all_args="-d1"

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 20:16, lunedì 08 agosto 2005, Joseph ha scritto: > > I have tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd > but it is not accepting the it. I can not set DMA on this DVD > I just called BenQ and they don't support Linux; so don't buy BenQ > products as they don't support Linux. In example of DVD/writer it > wil

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:52 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > > > > >>I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it > >>support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 > >>It will not let me. > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set by the manufacture? -- #Joseph I think the issue might b

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
Joseph wrote: >On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > >>I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it >>support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 >>It will not let me. >> >>Was the limit set by the manufacture? >> >>-- >>#Joseph >> >> > >I

Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: > I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it > support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 > It will not let me. > > Was the limit set by the manufacture? > > -- > #Joseph I think the issue might be the driv

[gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set by the manufacture? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list