DVD-Rom: DMA is disabled
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Aug 25 17:46:49 UTC 2006
Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> both drives are PATA. Why should they be running in a compatibility mode ?
>
> Anyway, I will grab a new kernel.
>
> Will Fedora Core 6 ship with 2.6.18 or 2.6.17 ?
>
> cu romal
>
>
> Alan Cox schrieb:
>
>>On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:39:28PM +0200, R.M.Albrecht wrote:
>>
>>>But the canoncial solution would be to enable DMA ? Has anyone an idea
>>>where the problem lies ?
>>
>>You need a new enough kernel to handle the ICH6M SATA and PATA together nicely
>>and the devices not to be in compatibility mode.
>>
>>Alternatively build 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 and select the Intel PIIX/ICH driver from
>>that without the "old IDE" PIIX driver and it should grab all the devices and
>>put them under /dev/sda /dev/sr0 etc using libata.
>>
>>Alan
>>
>
>
In our Toshiba laptop, we have the same controller. Both SATA, even
though the specs when we ordered said IDE. The model numbers from the
hardware browser both show SATA models. The different models caused me
headaches due to this same problem. Both work like a dream with FC4.
Get the latest kernel first and search Google for ICH6 flags to set.
--
Robin Laing
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