A more complete log about my disk access errors

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Sat Jun 2 23:52:39 EDT 2001


Don't quote me on this because I could be wrong,
but ultra dma is used for newer drives and newer motherboards. From your dmesg output,
it seems like your system is a good candidate for it.
Greg


On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:51:40AM +0200, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> But why UltraDMA? Are DMA and UltraDMA much different from each other?
> Vic
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt at megsinet.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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