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TjaBBe
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 Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject: What IDE chipset drivers shoud I use? |
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| What kernel setting should I use at the IDE chipset support for an MSI K7T Turbo2 Mobo, wich, I beleive had an VIA VT686B IDE chipset. I tried VIA 82CXXX chipset support, but I still can't get IDE at boot configured... |
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stim
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TjaBBe
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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My problem is that the kernel does not enable dma at startup... My hdparm settings also don't seem to work but when I set dma manually after startup (using "hdparm -d /dev/hda") it does work, but only during that session. |
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stim
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| TjaBBe wrote: | | My problem is that the kernel does not enable dma at startup... My hdparm settings also don't seem to work but when I set dma manually after startup (using "hdparm -d /dev/hda") it does work, but only during that session. |
Ahh, thats a different issue. hdparm only works for the current session (as you have found out), but if you run: | Code: | | rc-update add hdparm default |
as root, then it will be run at every boot. As far as I can tell (someone else might be able to confirm this), you will still get that warning message about dma not being enabled during the boot sequence. But I think that is only because the testing/error messaging is done before hdparm is executed in the startup scripts.
Hope that helps. |
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TjaBBe
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Ok thanks, the hdparm options are now set at startup... But I still think dma should be enabled from the kernel... I'll look into this some more... For so far thanks for the help!  |
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jaska
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| DMA usually is enabled from the kernel, but sometimes it just won't work until forced into dma from hdparm. |
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cyrillic
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| TjaBBe wrote: | | I tried VIA 82CXXX chipset support, but I still can't get IDE at boot configured... |
If you compiled your first kernel without IDE chipset support and a second kernel with IDE chipset support, perhaps you are still booting with your first kernel.
Look closely at the time and date given by this command. It will tell you when the kernel you are running was compiled. |
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