[wellylug] Installfest / hardware guru's

[Kevin Dorne]

Quoting JP <jumbophut at yahoo.co.in>:

> Have you by chance upgraded your kernel?  The kernels
> in Debian Sarge (2.4.>20 and 2.6) and possibly other
> distros seem to enable DMA by default, which causes
> problems on old hardware.  Recompiling the kernel with
> DMA disabled can help.  Not sure if there is an option
> you can pass to lilo to disable dma; if there is, that
> is another possible solution.

Yeah, disabling DMA may fix some of the problems, but that hardware would
definitely support DMA, no question....

Whenever I have DMA problems with disks, I check the drive cables first--they're
notoriously touchy.

-k