Public bug reported: Hi,
I installed Ubuntu Hardy on a Compaq Presario R4206EA (R4000 series) which had Edgy on another partition. This laptop has a DVD-RW burner which works fine under Edgy, however the DMA activation and 32 bits IO support fail under Hardy. The immediate consequence is that it is impossible to watch a DVD on it (too jerky), and that it takes 3h20 to burn a 3.5GB data DVD… Here is the output of hdparm under Hardy : ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- $ sudo hdparm /dev/cdrom (seen as /dev/scd0) /dev/cdrom: IO_support = 0 (default) 16-bit) HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- Same under Edgy : ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- $ sudo hdparm /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- Here are the capabilities of the burner (same output in both versions) : ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- $ sudo hdparm -i /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: Model=TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532R , FwRev=HA05 , SerialNo=454F208147 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic } RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=0 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 AdvancedPM=no Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1: ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- And then, under Hardy : ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- $ sudo hdparm -c1 -d /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 0 (default) 16-bit) HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ------------------------------- 8< ------------------------------- I used to boot Edgy on a customed 2.6.20 kernel for other reasons. I use Hardy's default one. I cannot perform any other tests on Edgy because I already formated it (may have the kernel config somewhere if needed though). Please find verbose lspci, dmidecode and lshw output in attachment. Forgot dmesg, I will send it asap (laptop not available now). I was in a hurry and didn't have much time to perform tests on the hard drive. I think it has the same kind of problems, but I don't remember well and am thus not sure. I will communicate about it when available (not before one month though…). Possibly related reports, at least : #205817, #216878, #224561, #221455, #221455, #135473, #136506, #155511… ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [Hardy] No DMA nor 32bits IO support anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228302 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs