Re: IDE problem: linux-2.5.17

Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Thu, 23 May 2002 20:03:57 +0200


> 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.
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