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DateWed, 15 Apr 1998 22:48:07 -0400
Frommlord <>
SubjectRe: DMA on CMD646 went away in 2.1.9x series?
Don Fisher wrote:
> 
> My 2.1.88 kernel supports DMA on IDE disks, while the 2.1.96
> protests the hdparm command with the following.
> 
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off).
...

Somebody recently broke the CMD646 support for non-sparc,
though if you configure in the sparc driver, it might work
regardless.

The pending IDE update includes a fix for this.
-- 
mlord@pobox.com
The Linux IDE guy

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