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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Is it possible that you are reading it wrong?> >> > I don't think so, and the box is a lot more responsive. dmesg shows > > > > ide_setup: ide=nodmaIDE: Prevented DMA>> This is misleading as drivers are free to override this setting. > Bart, thanks for putting me straight. Indeed, siimage.c doesn't have 'if (!autodma)' to wrap 'hwif->autodma = 1;' like some of the others (e.g. hpt366). Easy enough for me to add it, but for reasons I'm too dumb to understand that turns off dma even without ide=nodma in the bootargs, and it then does a series of time out / resets if I try to enable dma with hdparm :-( Obviously, the sensible thing for me to do is to not touch siimage.c and to turn dma off with hdparm until I'm ready to do extended dma tests. It's not as if any sane platforms really want to add extra ide controllers and then cripple them. Thanks anyway. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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