Re: DMA Disabled?

Simon Trimmer (simon@ocston.org)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:46:16 +0000 (GMT)


hi,
I have that motherboard, the messages are down to the aladdin chipset, go
to http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ and get the "Uniform
Multi-Platform E-IDE driver". This version of the patch even works :)

simon.

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Ian White wrote:
> Below is part of a 2.2.5 boot log that tells me that my DMA is disabled.
> It also claims the IDE controller is unknown. This is a Asus P5A
> motherboard which I figured would be common. I don't see this message on
> other machines with other motherboards. What changes need to be made to
> fix these?
>
> Ian
>
>
>
> Linux version 2.2.5 (root@ianw) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Apr 6
> 23:05:15 PDT 1999
> Detected 350801957 Hz processor.
> Calibrating delay loop... 699.60 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 128376k/131008k available (704k kernel code, 408k reserved,
> 1484k data, 36k init)
> CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 00
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SANYO CRD-820P, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdc: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX8.0AT, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A, 3079MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=782/128/63
> hdc: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX8.0AT, 7665MB w/69kB Cache, CHS=15574/16/63
> hdb: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
> hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM DVD-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 768kB Cache
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> hdc: [PTBL] [977/255/63] hdc1 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 >
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
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ttfn, Simon.
Simon Trimmer,
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