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On Saturday, 29 July 2006 5:16, gentuxx wrote: |
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> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: |
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> > On Friday, 28 July 2006 22:36, Stefán István wrote: |
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> >> Hello! |
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> >> I'm not able to activate dma mode for cdrom drive in my laptop. |
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> >> # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd |
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> >> |
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> >> /dev/hdd: |
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> >> setting using_dma to 1 (on) |
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> >> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted |
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> >> using_dma = 0 (off) |
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> >> |
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> >> [snip] |
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> >> |
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> >> I think the problem is that there is no driver for this chipset compiled |
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> >> into the kernel. But I don't know which driver should be compiled into. |
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> >> I tried Intel PIIXn but it didn't help. |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks for the help in advance, |
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> >> István |
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> > |
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> > You will need to set CONFIG_IDE=n, enable SCSI cdrom support |
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> > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR) and enable the Intel PIIX sata driver |
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> > (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX). |
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> Isn't this deprecated? Wouldn't a better choice be to install the |
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> SATA driver ebuild? (Mainly trying to eliminate my own confusion here.) |
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No, libata is most certainly not deprecated and what ebuild are you talking |
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about? |
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> > DMA should then work perfectly fine. However one side effect is that your |
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> > cdrom drive will become /dev/sr0, although I guess this can be fixed |
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> with a |
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> |
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> > udev rule. |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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