SOLVED Re: intel D865PERL and DMA for disks (IDE)?

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Erik Steffl wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 13 of September 2003 02:19, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
> ... Intel D965PERL and hdparm -d 1 ...
> 
>>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=m
>>> CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y
>>
>> You should use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
>> or load piix module (may not be reliable).
> 
>   wow:
> 
> jojda:/home/erik# modprobe piix
> Segmentation fault
> 
>   lsmod | grep piix
> 
> piix                    7976   1  (initializing)
> 
>   rmmod piix
> 
> piix: Device or resource busy
> 
>   I guess I'll try to compile it in. thanks,

   in addition to the above it _seems_ that trying to modprobe piix 
caused netstat -ni to freeze (and so e.g. mozilla and evolution stopped 
working, but not konqueror, pan ...)

   I changed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX to y and it's working fine, so far (ide 
disks use dma).

	erik