Re: toshiba ide - ide dma setting

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

[ Okay, now I see what is the problem. :-) ]

Have you tried "Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support" ?

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:39:22 +0100, Marcin Kuk <marcin.kuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have a problem to allow DMA setting to my harddisk.
> I have Toshiba Satellite 320CDT laptop.
> 
> I found this question in letter's archive:
> http://search.luky.org/linux-kernel.2003/msg35013.html
> 
> And the answer:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.0/0308.html
> 
> This is part of my dmesg from 2.4.26 kernel:
> .........
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> hda: TOSHIBA MK4006MAV, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CD-220EA, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> hda: host protected area => 1
> hda: 8007552 sectors (4100 MB), CHS=7944/16/63
> hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
> hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> Partition check:
>  hda: [PTBL] [993/128/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
> ............
> 
> I know that is problem with bridge used for ide handle.
> I tried a lot of kernels:
> > 2.4.26 and 2.6.10 series.
> Please tell me with patch will solve my problem for 2.6.10 kernel or
> what can I do for enabling DMA?
> 
> Another question:
> In my bios I can choose two variant for my IDE:
> * Standard IDE
> * Enhanced IDE
> Which should I choose?
> I tried both and I dont's see any difference.
> 
> Sorry if my english is poor.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcin Kuk