On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:56:21PM -0800, Doug Sutherland thus spake: > CF adapter testing time ... > > UPS dropped off my Ampro CompactFlash to IDE adapter > http://www.ampro.com/products/accessoryhw/cfa.htm > > 4) In ALL cases I get DMA timeouts during the > partition check. When booting from the CF socket > it times out three times, then proceeds. When > booting from the IDE adapter it times out three > times then fails with the kernel panic. > > Anybody have any idea what the problem might be or > what else I should try to remedy this? At first I > though maybe the BIOS settings (PIO modes & DMA) > were not correct, but the BIOS autodetects these > fine with the drive in the IDE adapter. > > -- Doug This sounds to me like a flaky IDE controller. You should not be getting DMA errors at all. Look in the kernel ocnfiguration if your IDE chipset is mentionned. Worse case, enable them all. :) Also, the BIOS setting shouldn't matter. Once the linux kernel is started, the BIOS is forever ignored. Eric LaForest -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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