i just say, be careful, enabling dma can destroy it, check your kernel and be SURE to have the real driver for your chipset enabled, and then enable the option: "enable dma for disks by default of available"
forcing dma can destroy disks, it happend for me, i have nforce chipset On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:33, Helder Correia wrote: > Hello, > I'm a Gentoo newbie. I have just installed from 1.4 i386 LiveCDs and now I get > a message at booting saying I don't have DMA enabled for my hard drive (the > context of the message is something related to fsck). > > I edited /etc/conf.c/hdparm and now it looks like this: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > # Copyright 2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later > # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hdparm/files/hdparm-conf.d,v 1.1 > 2003/03/01 21:17:39 sethbc Exp > > # You can either set hdparm arguments for each drive using disc*_args and > cdrom*_args.. > # eg. > # disc0_args="-d1 -X66" > # disc1_args"-d1" > # cdrom0_args="-d1" > > disc0_args="-d1 -X66 -c1 -A1 -m1" > > # Or, you can set hdparm options for ALL drives using all_args.. > # eg. > # this mimics the behavior of the current script > #all_args="-d1" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Result: nothing changed, I get the same message. > Can you please help me? > Thanks. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
