solved?: grub ide=nodma not working with CF card - boot delay

I think I solved the ide=nodma not being recognized problem by compiling and installing a custom kernel. I turned [b]off[/b] the option [b]CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO[/b] in the .config file. This option is set to "Y" in the standard Debian 4.0 kernel. From 'menuconfig' help for this option:

grub ide=nodma not working

I'm also seeing the same issue with the Debian 4.0 Release (Etch). I have a custom Celeron based SBC with an IDE CF slot as the primary drive. The board itself does not support DMA, so I've been using the 'ide=nodma' boot parameter with RedHat 9.0 and Debian Sarge. On these older distributi

Re: grub ide=nodma not working

I have no answer for you, but I am experiencing the same problem. I'm trying to find out if my Kingston CF card does not support DMA, or if my IDE-CF adaptor does not support DMA. I have also tried turning DMA off in GRUB, but it seems as though later on in the bootup sequence, Debian probe

grub ide=nodma not working with CF card - boot delay

Hi there. I have been trying to figure out how to get rid of the dma timer errors that I am getting when booting my debian testing (etch) from compact flash (Kingston) using a CF-to-IDE interface. I have placed the following in my /boot/grub/menu.lst: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 ide