A more complete log about my disk access errors

[Gregory Nowak]

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:
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> 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