I'm not sure about that.
As you can see from `lspci' my TXpro is actually using a ALi chipset (Aladdin IV), which should support DMA mode on every IDE channel (this is what ALi homepage says), and it's used also in some good motherboards (good=more expensive than pcchips).
And the DOS driver which is shipped with the matherboard can set up the DMA mode (but it is not enabling by default).
Anyway, DMA is not the only strange thing with this motherboard under linux: I can't neither set any PIO mode!! Does not work neither ``hdparm -p<anything> /dev/hda'' or ``echo "pio_mode:3">/proc/ide/hda/settings'' (linux-2.1.95).
So: could there be something non-standard in this chipset to require his own driver?
Simone
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1531 (rev b3)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1533 (rev b4)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C764_1 [Trio 32/64 vers 1] (rev 54)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev 20)
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