Durante el boot obtengo este mensaje donde segun parece se desactiva el DMA:
[...] PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM MAVERICK 540A, ATA DISK drive hdc: CRD-8240B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, 3337MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=847/128/63, UDMA hdb: QUANTUM MAVERICK 540A, 516MB w/98kB Cache, CHS=524/32/63, DMA hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: (aqui espera al menos unos 10 segundos i luego ...) hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: DMA disabled hdb: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success hdb1 [...] Alguien sabe que significa y porque pasa? -- ========================== Vicenç Masanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==========================