Lionel Bouton wrote:

> Yes, if hdparm /dev/hdx does indeed show that dma is
> used could you give us at least the chipset and your kernel config
> (/usr/src/liux/.config)

/dev/hda:
  multcount    = 16 (on)
  I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  nowerr       =  0 (off)
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  readahead    =  8 (on)
  geometry     = 3736/255/63, sectors = 60030432, start = 0
  busstate     =  1 (on)

/dev/hdb:
  multcount    = 16 (on)
  I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  nowerr       =  0 (off)
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  readahead    =  8 (on)
  geometry     = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0
  busstate     =  1 (on)

No idea of the specific IDE chipset. The PCI device 'AMD-768 [Opus] IDE' 
in the latest pciids database.

Tony

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