On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:27:12AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * G?zimHoxha (2003-06-22 01:08 +0200) > > When gentoo boots it says: > > Warning: dma on you harddrive is turned off. > > .... > > Who says that?
It's a message from fsck. I got this when I did not have the drivers for my IDE chipset (SIS POS) compiled into the kernel, and the kernel was using the generic IDE code. It was very slow (long cmpile times etc) until I compiled them in. Now the box is alot faster (UDMA5 on 66Mhz bus rathetr than PIO4) Would be worth checking that is you're getting this message that you have the right drivers compiled in. Check in dmesg for something like 'IDE Chipset XXX detected but no compiled in'. It'll happen fairly need the top. -- Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
