From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Simon MORIN <simon-morin@laposte.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA activation problem on Intel ICH7 82801GBM/GHMA
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:01:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45040CC7.9080607@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609101201.52167.simon-morin@laposte.net>
Simon MORIN wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I have installed Gentoo Linux on my Acer Aspire 9410 laptop (Core Duo).
>
> The hard drive and the cdrom are PATA devices and activating DMA on them seems
> to be impossible. The IDE controller is an Intel 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family).
>
> I checked the option "Intel PIIXn chipsets support" (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y)
> in "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL" but it doesn't recognise the chipset (nothing appear
> about this in dmesg), so I can only use the generic ide driver.
>
> When I run hdparm as root, it shows me this :
>
>> hdparm -d1 /dev/sda
> /dev/sda:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
Same old combined mode problem. Google around for this FAQ...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-10 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-10 10:01 DMA activation problem on Intel ICH7 82801GBM/GHMA Simon MORIN
2006-09-10 13:01 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-10 17:46 ` Simon MORIN
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