[SOLVED] Dma, Reiserfs

BlinkingSpirit · 07-31-2009, 11:00 AM

hi,
i have slackware on my laptop aspire 3610, and recompiled the kernel 2.6.26 and everythings works fine in linux/ext3, recently i reinstalled slack but this time with reiserfs, and recompiled kernel with same .config file, after reboot with new kernel, appear this message

Warning: The dma on your hard drive is turned off.
This may really slow down the fsck process.

how i can resolve this problem?

regards

chaosorama · 08-01-2009, 02:36 AM

use the command 'hdparm', I believe the option is '-d' to toggle dma. In any case check the man page before doing anything but I believe the command would be something like 'hdparm -d /dev/xxx' (replace xxx with the device in question i.e. hda, sda, etc.)

BlinkingSpirit · 08-01-2009, 07:39 AM

Hi,
thanks for replying, i tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hda, but it gives me a permission denied error.
After viewing this thread, i resolved the problem.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...kernel+chipset

the problem is i hasn't enabled intel chipset in the kernel, so enabled and recompiled again. It's weird that in ext3 didn't accused this error and in the reiserfs accused, anyway the problem is resolved.

regards