Re: IDE DMA doesn't work withpata_via and compact flas h card

[philipp]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:19:11 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> ones, when using DMA. Turning off DMA for the old IDE drivers or
>> patching ata_generic to handle my IDE controller and then deactivating
>> DMA in the BIOS works, but then disk I/O is unbelievable slow.. do you
>> have any idea how to fix it, so that DMA works?
> 
> Does your CF/IDE adapter support DMA ?

Oh well, you're right.. there are still some CF/IDE adapters which do not
support DMA. I'll guess this is the problem then, so I'll return it to the
shop.

Best regards,
Philipp

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/