See if it does or doesn't here.
If it does pass the requirements, then please send me a copy of the
firmware revisions that hdparm reports, and ditto if they fail.
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Koby Kahane wrote:
> I have recently upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.0-pre9
>
> I've noticed that my boot messages say that DMA is disabled for my
> 2nd and 3rd hard disks. Is it safe for me to enable DMA (via hdparm)
> for these drive models or should I stick to none-DMA mode?
>
> Please Cc: to me as I am not on this list.
>
> Here are the relevant lines from the kernel boot messages:
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: WDC AC24300L, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: WDC AC33100H, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: WDC AC31600H, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: CREATIVECD1620E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: WDC AC24300L, 4112MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA
> hdb: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC33100H
> hdb: DMA disabled
> hdb: WDC AC33100H, 3020MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=767/128/63
> hdc: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC31600H
> hdc: DMA disabled
> hdc: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=3148/16/63
> hdd: ATAPI 16X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache
>
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The (NEW) Linux IDE guy
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.2.bin.tar.gz
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