DMA works on my other 2 hard drives on the highpoint controller, without patching or any fuss. Just the new maxtor drive played up.
But I put it onto a normal IDE (non highpoint) channel, and works fine. So my problem is gone. On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:42, diego wrote: > If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch > you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then > kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). > > Good Luck! > > > El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las 18:27, Azrael escribió: > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: > > > On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: > > > > I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. > > > > Formatted ext3 etc. > > > > When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, > > > > and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is > > > > rather sluggish (could be subconscious). > > > that's not good > > > > > > perhaps limiting the udma level will help > > > > > > what is the mobo? > > > > > > jim tarvid > > > > mobo KT7A-raid with highpoint controller. > > Turns out the DMA works fine on the normal IDE .. and so I moved it > > there. But apparently there is an incompatability on the highpoint > > controller... easy solution.. don't use it there.. > > thanks for the answer though > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- > > Azrael > > > > ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ > > `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) > > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' > > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' > > ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' > > > > Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave > > of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it > > would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. > > > > ICQ#52944566 > > Registered Linux User: 269002 > > -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002
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