Re: VIA VT8366 and IDE/DMA?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a K7 mainboard with VT8366 chipset, but I can't

VT8366 (KT266) is a north bridge and has nothing to do with IDE.

> turn IDE DMA on:
>
> atlantis# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)

Compile kernel with VIA IDE support:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y

> Writing to /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings has no effect.
>
>
> Can anyone give me a hint how to turn DMA on?
>
> regards
> Hadmut

Regards,
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Bartlomiej