Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-03-31 Thread Agustin Martin
Hi, Johannes, I had to deal with this problem too and got some experience on it Then I tried to create a custom initrd image using "mkinitrd" from "initrd-tools" (0.1.56). I noticed that the default "/sbin/init" script will try to pass the IDE options specified on the kernel command line to "ide-

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:11:39AM +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: > So I need to disable the DMA right at boot. Usually this has been done > by giving the kernel "ide=nodma" parameter but now with the modular > kernel this does not appear to work. The module should accept a similar parameter then

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:40:18AM +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: > > I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian > Sarge in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep > getting DMA timeouts and retries from /dev/hda. The kernel image is > 2.4.23-1-386 (2.4.23-1)

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:11:39 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:41:35AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:40:18 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: >> > I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge >> > in to an old laptop and with

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-25 Thread Johannes Lehtinen
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:41:35AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:40:18 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: > > I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge > > in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep getting DMA > > timeouts and retries

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:40:18 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge > in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep getting DMA > timeouts and retries from /dev/hda. The kernel image is 2.4.23-1-386 > (2.4.2