From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl ([195.216.104.3] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 156LEA-0004gc-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:54:42 -0400 Received: from cybertsar (ppp08.sylaba.poznan.pl [195.216.104.108]) by goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f52NsgH18624 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 01:54:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <000801c0ebbe$c8c54920$b621fea9@cybertsar> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: Subject: Re: A more complete log about my disk access errors Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:14:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Kirk! That sheds some light. I will probably end up downloading a diag diskette for Western Digital drives and see whether they detect DMA capabilities. OK, if it turns out that I was fooled by Windows during all this time, do you know of any parameter which I could use to tell Linux to fall to PIO mode right away? Best, Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" To: Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:53 PM Subject: Re: A more complete log about my disk access errors > First, understand why Windows 2000 doesn't complain about the DMA. If the > drive times out twice (ever) then it no longer uses DMA ever. So it won't > complain. It won't tell you. In fact, win winclows 98 they burried any > indication that this had happened. It happens more often them many people > realize. > > Having said that, if you didn't have DMA support compiled into the kernel > you wouldn't get the errors. Yes, it must be compiled in if it is to be > used. (DMA falls back to PIO in case of failure and PIO always remains > available.) > > As for fixing this, it is either the motherboard or the drive. I know that > doesn't help. You might check to see that DMA is turned on in the > BIOS. (Linux will try anyway, winblows just acts like it is using DMA and > doesn't really.) Otherwise try another DMA drive and see if the problem > resolves. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >