DMA issues

[Jason Bradley Nance]

Thanks John.  That seems to have worked.

j


> You won't be able to enable DMA on your PATA drives if you both a) have
> at least one SATA drive and b) load ide-generic before loading your
> chipset driver. The solution (for you, others will need to choose the
> appropriate chipset driver) is to put piix in /etc/modules somewhere
> before ide-generic. Yeah, it's pretty wacky; I ended up building my own
> kernels for months with Debian because I didn't know this.
> 
> If you unload ide-generic, ide-cd, and piix and then re-load them
> (ide-generic last), it might work without rebooting.

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