-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 08:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/17/08 06:48, Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I >> discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow >> and in general my system is very slow. > >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. > >> My hardware: >> motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) >> hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) >> cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) [snip] > > Soon after a reboot, search dmesg for all references to that WD > drive (probably "ata0"), and for hda. Maybe that will give you some > tips. > > Also, maybe it's not using the correct chipset driver.
Scratch the chipset driver. It's the SATA driver. nForce2 is old enough that it almost definitely needs sata_nv. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh/TQQACgkQS9HxQb37XmdXlQCgj7wc00HFX2eTmIxERtLtlieh 6zIAni91AA84r2NpkKkl2JfQafWiIF7q =YmAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]