Re: IDE problem: linux-2.5.17

Martin Dalecki
2002-05-23T19:10:53Z

Uz.ytkownik Gryaznova E. napisa?:
> 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?
>
> Note that bus speed is 33 MHz when kernel fails to boot.
> I mean - how do I specify slower bus speed: 22 MHz?

You know what? I don't answer you directly I will just put a note
about this in to Documentation/ide.txt which is long overdue anyway :-).
You should better don't do UDMA>>66 with 40 write cablings. That's all.