From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:55:15 -0400 Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7d066e369db2a6684b8b954c9c11e2c9@ladd.quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bdb6b6b4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I have a lot of old kit around and can't for the hell of me figure out > which drives do need and which ones don't want DMA, occasionally i thought that dma problems were almost always controller/cable or master/slave related? almost all the device i deal with are sata these days. and before that, i stuck to scsi. in any event, - there's a knob because i was worried about breaking old stuff. - it's likely the ide driver, rather than hardware, causes this incompatability. smiley, did the kernel with *sdC0dma support print anything different? - erik