Hello,
I installed Mandrake 6.0 some weeks ago. Everything
(excepted sound...) works fine, but yesterday I noticed that
I am running with DMA disabled (dmesg excerpt reported below).
I checked the BIOS setup, and it says something like
"AUTO detection of HDD features enabled".
The MB is a FIC with VIA chipset, unfortunately I forgot to write
it down..
Note: this machine has only MANDRAKE installed: WIN98 was
installed by the vendor just to check that all HW was ok,
but the whole HDD was reformatted during Mandrake installation.
Any idea about why this is happening, and how to fix it?
(different configurations, LILO parameters, etc...)
Thank you in advance,
Marco Fioretti
Humour note: at power up, the on board antivirus tells me in
great despair that there is some "unknown virus on MBR!!"
Eventually, of course, LILO and LINUX takes over..
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DMESG excerpt:
Linux version 2.2.9-19mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(gcc version pgcc-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release))
#1 Wed May 19 19:53:00 GMT 1999
Detected 350799006 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 699.60 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127732k/131008k available (956k kernel code, 408k reserved,
1528k data, 48k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4e0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: 00:3b [1106/3040/000604] has unknown header type 00, ignoring.
PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.19
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, 8063MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 8/0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hda: irq timeout: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
nfsd_init: initialized fhcache, entries=256
