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Con Kolivas wrote: > Sid Boyce writes:>>> Nuno Monteiro wrote:>>>>>>>> On 2004.07.11 23:55, Sid Boyce wrote:>>>>>>> I've been wondering why this is, I can't remember what the BIOS >>>> says about the hard drives, from memory it looked OK, I think it >>>> was set to>>>>>>>>>>>> <snip snip>>>>>>>> PCI IDE nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)>>>>>>>>>>>> <snip snip>>>>>>>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set>>>>>>>>>>>> You don't have the driver for your IDE chipset compiled in. In the >>> "ATA/ ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" under "Device Drivers" menu select "AMD >>> and nVidia IDE support". Also, you can disable the "Generic PCI IDE >>> Chipset Support" and the "VIA82CXXX chipset support" you seem to >>> have enabled. >>> >>> Then you should be able to do DMA, and things will go a lot faster. >>> >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> >>> >>> Nuno>>>>>> Oops!, thanks. The previous motherboard used the VIA chipset, so that >> got missed when I changed over.>> Regards>> Sid.>>> DMA disabled is perhaps the most common reason for poor performance > under I/O loads. I think some cut down configurations that people have > used from their 2.4 installations have missed the appropriate IDE driver. >> Cheers,> Con That fixed the problem. When I checked my P-II 333 box and AMD64 laptop (VIA chipset), they were OK. Working on 4 boxes at the same time, I guess I got stuck in a VIA mental groove. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE ===== - 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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