[mythtv-users] RE: Help: issues in trying to enable DMA on hard
drives for mythtv...
Mark Knecht
markknecht at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 04:14:57 UTC 2005
Robert,
Did you build you own kernel? Please check that you actually
enabled SiS support. Look under
Device Drivers->Character Devices->SiS Chipset support
I believe that's what would turn this on.
Good luck,
Mark
On 6/2/05, Robert McRostie <RobertMc at laservision.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks Mark. Just tried this and all worked except the DMA access. Gives the same error as before. Any other ideas?
>
> >/sbin/hdparm -c 3 -d 1 -m 16 -A1 /dev/hda
> >
> >This means: '-c 3' enables 32 bit transfers with sync through the pci
> >bus, '-d 1' enables DMA operation, '-m 16' turns on multisector
> >transfers (with 16 sectors) and '-A1' enables the driver read ahead
> >feature.
>
>
> Regards,
> Robert.
>
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