Re: IDE problem: linux-2.5.17

Tomas Szepe
2002-05-23T18:04:06Z

> I have 40 wires cable. When ide=nodma is passed to 2.5.17 kernel -
> kernel boots. Am I correct that it is not possible to have DMA
> on with such cable? Is there any reason for doing that?

40-conductor IDE cables are capable of transfering data
in DMA modes up to udma2, but no faster.

T.