Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:46:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:46:35 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust128.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.128]:2290 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:46:34 -0400 Subject: Re: DMA borked in 2.4.20-pre5-ac1 From: Alan Cox To: "Joseph N.Hall" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020906012932Z318221-685+43270@vger.kernel.org> References: <20020906012932Z318221-685+43270@vger.kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-6) Date: 06 Sep 2002 11:52:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1031309526.9861.20.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 02:36, Joseph N.Hall wrote: > Okay, I got tired of living DMA hell with the Soyo Dragon Ultra > Platinum m/b (KT333a), and bought an ALi-based m/b instead, > an IWill XP333-R. But ... to my dismay I had no DMA at all > when booting under 2.4.20-pre5-ac1, which at least gave me > hard disk DMA on the Soyo. Also under 2.4.20-pre5-ac1 > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda refused to work, and hdparm -X66 > /dev/hda segfaulted: All known problems. Your ALi should work just fine with a 2.4.19-ac stable kernel release. 2.4.20pre-ac has lots of new and experimental IDE work going on in it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/