dma error with via82cxxx

[John]

Julien Motch wrote:

>Hi,
>
>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.
>
>S
>

There were reliability problems with mobos using the Via chipset some 
time ago. It's worth checking for BIOS updated for your system.