Thanks for the tips. I added teh hdg=none to my grub.conf and it worked like a charm. However I'm not sure what you mean by disable multi-mode I ran make menuconfig and under [IDE ATA and ATAPI Block Devices] []"Use Multi mode by devault" is already disabled. Should I turn it on? or is there another setting I'm not seeing. I thought I could add the hdparm rc-script as a dependency to the checkfs rc-script so when fsck gets called the harddisk will already be in DMA mode. However I am yet to make this work.
Thanks again for taking the time. -Arlo- On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:22 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 10:17 am, Arlo wrote: > > is there a way to get the driver not to look at "hdg" or to fail more > > quickly? > > in the kernel params, put "hdg=none" > > > I also get a message waring that my harddisk is not running in DMA mode > > and that fsck with run very slowly in this state (PIO?). > > > > Normaly I set the DMA using the hdparm script added to the boot runlevel. > > However that does not get run until the boot process is more or less > > over. > > > > can I force the SATA driver to use DMA from the start? > > yeah, its in the kernel config and you disable multi-mode by default. > > bryce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
