Re: [2.4.19-pre9] DMA not available

Pawel Kot (pkot@linuxnews.pl)
Fri, 31 May 2002 19:10:40 +0200 (CEST)


On 31 May 2002, Kjartan Maraas wrote:

> tor, 2002-05-30 kl. 17:24 skrev Pawel Kot:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't enable DMA with 2.4.19-pre9 with my Dell laptop:
> > root@bzzzt:~# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> > setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> > using_dma = 0 (off)
>
> This looks like the same problems I had a while back with my Compaq Evo
> N600. It was fixed for me by using the patches from
> http://linuxdiskcert.org/

Indeed. I applied the patch (with a few modifications to apply against
pre9) and it seems to work correctly so far (at least DMA works). Thanks
for the hint.

pkot

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