Hi fellows! Since I installed a secondary UDMA drive (hdd) as a slave of another UDMA drive (hdc) on an old (that doesn't support UDMA) P75, at boot time I get the error below . If the same drive (hdd) is slave of a not-UDMA HD and the other (hdc) is the standalone master of its own channel (or is not installed), all is working fine. Someone knows why this happens? There's a way to disable DMA in the kernel (without recompiling), so I can avoid this annoying message (and the waste of time), or to have DMA working? (using a rc*.d script with hdparm parameters doesn't work, because partition check comes first)
Many many thanks to all who will help. Mat Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: Partition check: Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [2481/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd:hdd: timeout waiting for DMA Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdc: DMA disabled Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: hdd: DMA disabled Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: ide1: reset: success Jan 8 10:57:04 spark kernel: [PTBL] [784/255/63] hdd1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]