dma error with via82cxxx

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:29:19AM +0200, Julien Motch wrote:

> I have faced a dma problem during the installation
> process, i.e when files were copied on the disk, the
> system crashed and I could read at the end of dmesg
> some messages talking of  hda dma error.
> 
> The problem comes from my MB which do not support  the
> dma mode I think. To solve this I had to suppress the
> via82cxxx ide chipset module (in expert mode you can
> choose to load it or not) because when it was loaded I
> could not change the dma settings with hdparm.
> But it can not be removed after the ide modules have
> been loaded and the discs detected.

Please file a bug in bugzilla with the output from the following commands:

dmesg
lspci

If your chipset is not correctly supported by the driver, DMA should not be
enabled (this should be handled automatically by the driver).

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 - mdz