From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Re: dma turned off Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:19:43 +0800 Message-ID: <20041112081943.33B1D480C6@heisspf> References: <200411111658.28958.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:58:28 +0100." <200411111658.28958.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Richard Adams Cc: linux On Thursday 11 November 2004 04:13, Peter H. wrote: > Hi, > > Slackware 10 > > When I switch to kernel 2.6.7 I get the following error message on bo= ot: > > =A0* Warning: The dma on your hard drive is turned off. * > =A0* This may really slow down the fsck process. * pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl said: > I suggest you use www.google.com/linux and type in "2.6.7 DMA" (witho= ut > quotes), lots of hints there on 2.6.x kernels and DMA. > I would go as far as saying its NOT you or your hardware at fault,man= y have > problems with DMA and friends at the minute. One draw back of using a= n up to > date kernel which has not been widely tested.=20 That's what I did before posting on the subject. That's why I asked whe= re to=20 put hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda in /etc/rc.d since the error message comes ear= ly on=20 booting and putting it into rc.local it will be executed at the end of = boot. I=20 put it into rc.S and still get the error message: setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > using_dma =3D 0 (off) =46urther when booted with 2.6.7 kppp takes again 22 seconds to come up= against=20 11 with 2.4.26. Therefore I resign from the idea of using kernel 2.6.7. Signing off. Thanks everybody for the help, much appreciated. Regards --=20 Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs