On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:49:59AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > If it detected the chipset, it is almost certainly compiled in ... or it > wouldn't have checked for it.
Not true - I've seen the same message about a different IDE controller (ServerWorks OSB4). The message went away when I compiled in the OSB4 driver. The bad news was some bug in that driver that crashed my system, so I had to back off to generic IDE :-(. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tom Veldhouse > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Gruetzner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:22 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:05:39PM +0200, Arne Halenza wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > maybe your DMA mode is not activated? You can check and activate it > > > using the "hdparm" command (check the man-page about the command, I > > > don't know the details at the moment). I had a similar problem in the > > > past. The chipset I used was supported, but not in DMA mode. So I had > > > the slowest PIO mode. > > > > > No, I already enabled DMA Mode. I just found out that dmesg tells me > > that an ICH4 chipset was detected but the driver was not compiled in, > > so I guess that could be the reason. Do you know, where in the kernel > > config I can enable the ICH4 Support? > > > > Greetings > > Michael > > > > -- > > The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be.... The > > natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and > experience > > only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. > > - Adam Smith > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
