Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-pre4 errors | | Date | Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:03:08 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I have compiled 2.2.0-pre4 for my smp system and run across some minor > problems. First of all the DMA-Support seems to be broken. In 2.2.0-pre1 > it worked just fine, but in 2.2.0-pre4 it says, that dma is broken for my > first IDE drive. As hardware hasn't changed it must be a problem with the > IDE driver. Second problem is a minor one. Just a wrong detection on the
No its intentional. The kernel has a list of drives that _sometimes_ cause problems so that it defaults to a safe value. You can use hdparm (man hdparm) to set it how you like if you know you dont have a problem
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