Tried that, that is what I ment by DMA_AUTO, sorry.
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote:
> Turn on "Use DMA by default when available" and then recompile the kernel.
> Thats what worked for me...
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> -Chris
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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Nicholas Webb wrote:
> > Hi:
> > I was running ultra66 just fine on 7.0, then I formatted and
> > upgraded to 7.1. On 7.1 the drives are detected great, but I only get
> > around 5MB/sec on these drives. When doing a hdparm /dev/mydrive I find
> > that dma is off . . . if I turn it on it freezes my system. If I
> > recompile the kernel with DMA_AUTO it still will not turn it on at boot
> > up. Any ideas?
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