-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:32 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i > get this error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > The first is a 40 Gb Matrox IDE and the second a 120 GB Matrox IDE. > They are recent disks (< 1 year). My motherboard is abit b6, intel > 440bx chipset PIIX4 IDE. lspci reports that it's a intel 440bx > chipset (82443 BX/ 82371 EB) > > A while ago i recompiled the kernel for LVM support and i think i > might have excluded something that the kernel needs to set the dma. > What kernel options do i need to have set in order to allow dma=1? > > Thanks. > Benedict
>>Use this command to see what kernel options there are and what is >>selected in your kernel config file located in /boot. >>'cat /boot/config-<kerel version> |grep DMA' >>- -- >>Greg Madden I did this and the only options that were set are CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y All the others are specified as "is not set" So it seems as if dma is allowed here. Regards, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
