On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 16:08, Bruno Prior wrote:
> Quel Qun wrote:
> > 
> > As I wrote in the bug report, I tried booting with ide0=nodma (I also
> > tried ide0=notune), but it did not change anything.
> > I don't have access to any dma setting in the BIOS.
> 
> Don't know if it's supposed to be this way, but when I was having 
> trouble with installing from an old CD-ROM drive and wanted to disable 
> DMA on that IDE channel, ide0=nodma had no effect, but ide=nodma worked. 
> Maybe nodma can only be applied across the board to all IDE channels. 
> You could try it.
> 
yep, yep, yep,
That fixed it, thanks a lot.
The kernel documentation is misleading because it says:

  ide?=           [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : config (iomem/irq), tuning or
                  debugging (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or
                  chipset specific parameters.

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