On Fri 13 Apr, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Op 13-04-2007 om 18:27 schreef Chris Bell: > > > > I usually find that DMA has been turned on but the drive is unable to > > comply, so I turn DMA off for that drive. > > > How? > > > Please spend some more time on this bugreport. > Example given: tell/explain how to turn off DMA. > > > Thank you, > Geert Stappers > > > By coincidence I have just seen this problem on an older box, and followed the installation instructions in Chapter 5.3.1.2 The screen display "Detect CDROM" is followed by a list of modules to be loaded, I just pressed <return>, the modules were loaded, then the screen went mostly blue, followed by an error message reporting a CDROM access problem.
I changed to console 2 <alt>F2> <return> to activate cd /proc/ide/hdc echo -n "using_dma:0" >settings then return to console 1 <alt><F1> and retry CDROM detection. This brought up the screen "CD-ROM detected" -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]