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Collins Richey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jim Ockers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net"><ockers@ockers.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi CLUEbies,
It is unusual for something like this to stump me but I just can't seem to
figure out how it is supposed to work. I have a Linux system with the
following IDE controller:
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<pre wrap="">This is a STPC Atlas IDE from STMicroelectronics (formerly SGS Thomson
Microelectronics). It is PCI id 104a:0228.
The Linux driver used for this apparently doesn't allow or support DMA, I
think. I really need to turn DMA on.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but ... if the device (???) and driver
(for sure) doesn't support DMA, aren't you flirting with disaster if
you somehow manage to enable DMA?
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The Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 device
driver supports DMA on some chipsets. I was thinking the problem was
that it just didn't support DMA on this particular chipset. Ideally
there would be a chipset-specific device driver somewhere out there
that I can download, which will support DMA, and then I don't have to
use the generic Linux IDE driver.<br>
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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.net/msi.html">http://www.ockers.net/msi.html</a>
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