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 156LFe-0004iM-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:56:15 -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 f52NuEH18645 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 01:56:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <000e01c0ebbe$ff53f5e0$b621fea9@cybertsar> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: <15129.31315.287375.224398@localhost.localdomain> <20010602161651.A286@linserver.megsinet.net> Subject: Re: A more complete log about my disk access errors Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 01:51:40 +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: But why UltraDMA? Are DMA and UltraDMA much different from each other? Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:16 PM Subject: Re: A more complete log about my disk access errors > Hi Vic, > > Yeah, I'd say also to check if you have ultra dma > support in your kernel. > Greg > > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:44:19PM -0100, Victor Tsaran wrote: > Content-Description: message body text > > Hello, listers! > > I hope those of you who are experts in kernel bugs or interaction of kernel > > with the hardware can help me with this. Since I installed Redhat 7.1 I > > started to get the messages that RedHat cannot communicate through DMA with > > my hard drives. I know for sure that my hard drives can communicate through > > DMA, plus I was never getting similar messages before. Shon suggested for > > me to check whether UltraDMA support was compiled into my kernel, but I, > > firstly, do not understand why it should be included into kernel, and > > secondly, why would Redhat ignore including UltraDMA support in the first > > place. > > Iam therefore attaching the complete log from the messages buffer ring > > produced by the `dmesg' command. > > Please let me know if you have any idea and where should I look for > > possible solutions. > > WIndows 2000 is very happy about my drives, whereas Linux complains about > > them. However, after kernel disables DMA transfer mode, it goes pretty > > fine. Please ignore any messages about SWAP... > > Best and thanks in advance, > > Vic > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >