Alvin Oga wrote: >>I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much >>rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module >>tainting my kernel. > if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide, > than too late .... you have no choice if you want [u]dma mode > otherwise, you're stuck in ata-33 mode w/o dma even if your disk > is superfast 15K rpm ata-133 disks
As Wackojacko said, the normal open source module in the stock kernel supports DMA. I have had the motherboard for 2,5 years and have had no problems with DMA up until 2.6.14. Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
