Hi, I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX running. Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. lspci says: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2)
I i try now to enable DMA transfer with: hdparm -d1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device So my first thought was, check kernel for the right driver. But nv_sata is selected (statically). I checked dmesg and found: nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250820NS Rev: 3.AE Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda I boot my system with grub and had the option from the installer "doscsi" in the boot params. Must I use a different driver for that sata controller? Thx a lot for help, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
