ok, guys and gals... still having serial ata problems when i enable dma. when it's done, i get a spew of errors. the closest thing to this post has been
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=seagate+dma
this person seems to be having the same problem.
i'm using a siig controller card.../dev/hde:
Model=ST3120026AS, FwRev=3.05, SerialNo=3JT0D7QY
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=234441648
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2: 1 2 3 4 5 6
/dev/hde:
using_dma = 0 (off)
how do i fix the problem? i'm not asking how to turn on dma... i'm asking for a fix, if anyone knows...
thanks
chris
