Bug 107978 – DMA not available for hard drive on DEC HiNote Ultra 2000

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Bug 107978 - DMA not available for hard drive on DEC HiNote Ultra 2000

Summary:	DMA not available for hard drive on DEC HiNote Ultra 2000

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i586 Linux

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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-10-25 09:55 EDT by David C. Shaw
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:58 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:41:39 EDT
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Description David C. Shaw 2003-10-25 09:55:08 EDT

Description of problem:

DMA not available for the stock IBM hard drive on DEC HiNote Ultra 2000.  It IS
available under e.g. Windows NT.  Have to boot using ide=nodma or else enter
/sbin/hdparm -d0

An early symptom, maybe, is a message saying "BIOS not fully configured" and
"channel 00.08.00 unavailable" during boot.  I am running the latest DEC release
of the BIOS - v.1.07

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Linux v.9

How reproducible:

During installation - without entering "linux ide=nodma" installation is
pathologically slow.

Once installed - setting "/sbin/hdparm -d1" hangs the machine.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Either - try installing from CD with default procedure,
2. Or, try "/sbin/hdparm -d1"
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Actual results:

Pathologically slow performance

Expected results:

Faster performance than DMA disabled!

Additional info:

Latest BIOS from DEC (i.e. HP!) installed and hardware checked.  DMA works under
Windows NT.  "hdparm -I" shows that even udma2 should be available for this disk.

Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:41:39 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/

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