Re: Still no DMA on boot on S-ATA (Asus A7N8X-deluxe)

[Gutko (gutko@poczta.onet.pl)]

> >>>I can enable udma5 using hdparm, later in rc.local but why it is not
> >
> how do you do this?
hdparm -d1 -X udma5 -c1 -m16 /dev/hde

> what kind of Problems?
data corruption

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5108&highlight=data+corruption


>
> I've noticed that with the 2.4.21-rc2 it wasn't possible to use
> framebuffer AND the SiI3112 at the same time. I had to disable fb
> because of this (no loss for me, the debian installer works without fb
> too .-))

I dont know how it was in pure rc2. I always patched it with Alan's  -ACx
> Is this solved in -rc3?

if you have more than 512MB try passing "mem=512" to lilo. seems to work


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