[ILUG] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:12:47PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Paul Jakma thought:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> > ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> 
> > ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> uhmmmm... DMA is disabled in the BIOS? :)
 
Well, as I said earlier, "Ultra DMA Enabled" in CMOS

There's no other mention of DMA in any HD related sense anywhere else in
the CMOS except for some "Legacy ISA / PCI" stuff for cards for non-pnp
OS.

> eg, perhaps you've manually set the disks i9n the bios to PIO only? so
> try just setting them to "auto"  or similar, and see what happens.

Disks are both on "auto"

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