Hello,

When my system boots, I get several set_drive_speed_status errors.
(Please see attached dmesg output.)

Can someone explain what they mean? How do I get rid of them?

Is there something I need to set in the config? or something I should 
not have set?

Bonus question: is there some way to turn on DMA for hda?

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: PQI IDE DiskOnModule, ATA DISK drive
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 128000 sectors (65 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=500/8/32
  hda: hda1 hda2

# hdparm -v /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
  multcount     =  0 (off)
  IO_support    =  1 (32-bit)
  unmaskirq     =  1 (on)
  using_dma     =  0 (off)
  keepsettings  =  0 (off)
  readonly      =  0 (off)
  readahead     = 256 (on)
  geometry      = 500/8/32, sectors = 128000, start = 0

# hdparm -I /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
         Model Number:       PQI IDE DiskOnModule
         Serial Number:      DOM6B00011677
         Firmware Revision:  ra03.00e
Standards:
         Likely used: 1
Configuration:
         hard sectored
         not MFM encoded
         head switch time > 15us
         fixed drive
         disk xfer rate > 5Mbs
         Logical         max     current
         cylinders       500     500
         heads           8       8
         sectors/track   32      32
         --
         bytes/track: 0  bytes/sector: 528
         CHS current addressable sectors:     128000
         LBA    user addressable sectors:     128000
         device size with M = 1024*1024:          62 MBytes
         device size with M = 1000*1000:          65 MBytes
Capabilities:
         LBA, IORDY not likely
         Buffer type: 0002: dual port, multi-sector
         Buffer size: 1.0kB      bytes avail on r/w long: 4
         Cannot perform double-word IO
         R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 1   Current = 0
         DMA: not supported
         PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo 
PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo 
MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] 
(rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 
100 (rev 08)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 
100 (rev 08)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 
100 (rev 08)
00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 21152 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
02:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: DekTec Digital Video B.V. DTA-105

Regards.