DVD-Rom: DMA is disabled

Fri Aug 25 16:06:50 UTC 2006

Hi,

both drives are PATA. Why should they be running in a compatibility mode ?

Anyway, I will grab a new kernel.

Will Fedora Core 6 ship with 2.6.18 or 2.6.17 ?

cu romal

Alan Cox schrieb:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:39:28PM +0200, R.M.Albrecht wrote:
>> But the canoncial solution would be to enable DMA ? Has anyone an idea
>> where the problem lies ?
> 
> You need a new enough kernel to handle the ICH6M SATA and PATA together nicely
> and the devices not to be in compatibility mode.
> 
> Alternatively build 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 and select the Intel PIIX/ICH driver from
> that without the "old IDE" PIIX driver and it should grab all the devices and
> put them under /dev/sda /dev/sr0 etc using libata.
> 
> Alan
> 