Re: 2.4.19pres and IDE DMA

[Kjartan Maraas]

tor, 2002-05-02 kl. 22:41 skrev Samuel Flory:
>   I'm having issues with a Tyan 2720 and post 2.4.18 boards with a 
> Maxtor 4G120J6.  Under 2.4.18 I can turn on dma via "hdparm -d 1". 
>  Under 2.4.19pre7 I get "HDIO_SET_DMA fail ed: Operation not permitted". 
>  On a side note the same thing occurs with the RH 2.4.18-0.13 kernel. 
>  It appears both kernels merged an ide update from the ac kernel line.
> 
> PS-There is also some issue with a resource conflict that occurs under 
> every kernel I've tried.

I had the exact same problem myself with a brand new Compaq N600c
laptop. It was fixed for me by using Andre's patch from
http://linuxdiskcert.org/

Cheers
Kjartan