[Gllug] Cant enable DMA

[Ben Whyte]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Ben Whyte wrote:
>> Any ideas as to why it wont let me activate DMA ?
>
> This almost always means that your kernel lacks the specific driver 
> for the IDE chipset you have and is using a "generic" IDE driver instead.
>
> Recompile your kernel to include support for your specific IDE driver. 
> lspci will give you details as to which one it is.
>
> Regards
>
> Martin A. Brooks
>
I have done a lspci and the output is
...
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW 
(ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
...

I have done some research and this suggests that it uses the pciix 
driver.  Which when I do an lsmod is included.

Ben
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