On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Bert Vortman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of my harddisks has a problem with dma mode, but it works oke
> without dma. I use it primary as a temporary storage device. But every
> time i boot redhat, it takes ages passing the 'partition check'. The
> error is 'timeout waiting for DMA'. I tried shutting down DMA by setting
> the USE_DMA=0 variable in the /etc/harddiskhdb file, and somewhere i
> read to insert a 'ide0=nodma' somewhere in lilo.conf. But that does not
> work (and I can't find anywhere in the docs such an option for lilo).
> So, how can i skip the partition check for /dev/hdb? Or make the system
> aware that it should not use dma with that drive?
The lilo.conf line you are looking for is:
append="ide0=nodma"
It goes anywhere below the image= line, and before another image= or
other= line.
--
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.
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