[9fans] Bug Report. Maybe DMA race on Abit BX6

[Carl-Johan Kjellander <carljohan@kjellander.com>]

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andrey mirtchovski wrote:
 > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:
 >
 >  > Anyway, is it possible to force the kernel not to use DMA when booting?
 >  > Or is there another kernel I could try to get it installed.
 >  >
 >
 > you can configure the machine not to use DMA from the BIOS. also try 'cat
 > /dev/sdC0/ctl' to see whether it's on or off.
 >
 > doing a 'echo dma off > /dev/sdC0/ctl' will disable dma
 >
 > that assumes your disk is under /dev/sdC0 :)

Thanks! Getting another rc window up and turning off dma did the trick!
After that everything installed fine.

So there is a bug in the dma-handling for the Abit BX6 motherboard.

Please CC me
/Carl-Johan Kjellander
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