Re: [OT] DMA timeout problem]
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 15:13 -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
>
> > I just recently bought an Asus P5A motherboard, and as it has UDMA support,
> > I thought I'd try enabling it using a patch which is available for the
> > 2.2.2 kernel. Now I know that at least two other people have successfully
> > used this patch (doogie and aklein on #debian). The problem is that a) one
> > of my drives (hdb) performance drops to less than 2 or 3 meg/s, and if I try to
> > enable DMA using hdparm on hdb I get the following messages:
>
> I think you may need the latest hdparm to use that patch...
>
As nice as a simple solution like that would be, it isn't the case with
this - the timout occurs during booting, at drive detection time, well
before hdparm is run AFAIK. Thanks for the idea tho :)
Cheers
Dave
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