[ale] xine/dma

[Geoffrey]

What does hdparm -i report for the drive?

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Monday 24 February 2003 10:16 pm, Danny Cox wrote:
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>>        In this case, the zip drive is probably limiting the chipset.
>> Now, I've never worked with a zip drive, but it perhaps can't do DMA,
>>and so limits the whole IDE channel.  As a test, try unplugging the zip
>>drive, and see if you can turn on dma then.  If so, the easiest way out
>>may to be purchasing an PCI IDE contoller, and moving stuff around.
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> 
> Nope.
> Tried this. got the same result:
> < HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted>
> 
> Interesting note though:  AFter unplugging the drive cable
> from the Zip drive and rebooting, I expected kudzu to pop up
> to tell me it couldn't find the zip drive, but I got no such
> message. It always pops up with a similar message if I fail
> to turn on a printer or scanner before turning on the box.
> 
> I also have reviewed the pitiful mobo manual supplied by Intel.
> There are no jumper settings for changing the configuration of
> the onboard EIDE controllers.
> 
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> Sean
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