Re: [QUESTION] hdparm -d1 on boot gives strange errors

[Paul Rolland]

Hello,

> I'm running Gentoo, and on boot, a script enables DMA on all 
> IDE-Devices. For my 1st disk on hdparm -d1 it waits 15secs 
> and kernel gives strange errors. But for my 2nd disk it works ok.

Woah, exactly the same I have, doing the same operation :-)
I have to add that this is happening with a kernel where DMA is
activated by default on IDE disk, so there should be no need to
do that (I didn't try without DMA activated by default).

> Any clues?
> Is it the damn SiS chipset?
Don't know, but got SiS too (Mobo is ASUS P4S8X).

Regards,
Paul