What is the chipset you are using?
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Antti Andreimann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Im really sorry if this question has already been discussed somewhere.
> Im just new to this list and I couldn't dig myself through archives Yet.
> The problem is following:
> I have a Toshiba 32X CD-ROM Drive and Tomato Motherboard. The CD Does not
> like DMA transfers. But IDE controller seems to be convinced othervise.
> I can't just put hdparm -d0 /dev/cdrom to bootup scripts because when there's
> no CD in the drive hdparm is unable to open the device. I can disable the DMA
> in IDE driver but then it will disable DMA for all drives. Of course I can
> re-enable it with hdparm but it's annoying :-(
> The BIG question: Is there a way to tell ide driver that it should disable DMA
> for one drive only at bootup? I didn't find a clue about DMA related options
> in Documentation/ide.txt :-(
>
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
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