On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. >> >> My hardware: >> motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) >> hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) >> cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) >> >> My software: >> Debian lenny >> kernel: linux 2.6.24-1-686 >> bootloader: grub 0.97-41 >> >> > Today I upgraded my linux kernel to 2.6.25-2-686, but problem hasn't > been solved yet. > > I'm giving you some lines about DMA from '/var/log/syslog' file. > Perhaps, this will help you to solve my problem:
[...] > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 1.641566] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE > driver > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 1.641645] ide: Assuming 33MHz system > bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 1.642286] Probing IDE interface ide0... > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 2.057740] hda: WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0, > ATA DISK drive > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 2.729277] Probing IDE interface ide1... > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 3.592048] hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX320E, > ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 4.263546] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on > irq 14 > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 4.263546] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on > irq 15 > ... > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 5.859859] NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev > a2) UDMA133 controller > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 5.859938] NFORCE2: IDE controller > (0x10de:0x0065 rev 0xa2) at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0 This is important information: the vendorID (10de NVIDIA) and the deviceID (0065 NVIDIA_NFORCE2_IDE). You will get the same information by running "lspci -nn" on the command line; it will be listed as "[10de:0065]". This IDE controller seems to be supported by the amd74xx driver in kernel 2.6.25 (according to the Debian driver check page at http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/). > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 5.860054] NFORCE2: not 100% native > mode: will probe irqs later > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 5.860129] NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set > cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround. > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 5.860224] NFORCE2: port 0x01f0 already > claimed by ide0 > Jul 23 19:19:08 leva kernel: [ 5.860296] NFORCE2: port 0x0170 already > claimed by ide1 The first thing to check is if your kernel loaded the correct modules; please post the output of this command: lsmod | grep -E 'amd74xx|ata|\bide' Also, install the "hdparm" package if you don't have it already and run "hdparm /dev/hda" as root. What response do you get? You can also try to turn on DMA yourself with "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda"; maybe you will receive a helpful error message. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
