> After rebooting my machine dmesg showed the following lines:
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
more of same...
> hda: DMA disabled
>
>
> hdb had the DMA on and hda had DMA off but I had no problem turning it on
> manually.
>
> Do I have a problem in hdb? what should I do about it?
>
> Why didn't hda start with DMA automatically?
>
> Thanks,
> Yuval Scharf
Try enabling the option "Use multi-mode by default", found in:
Device Drivers
->Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
->Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
or IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y in the config file.
As the kernel help reads:
> Use multi-mode by default (IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE)
>
> If you get this error, try to say Y here:
>
> hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
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