Re: How to determine chipset

From: Greg Madden <pabi@acsalaska.net>
Date: Sun Sep 18 2005 - 20:11:19 AKDT

On Sunday 18 September 2005 08:03 pm, Scott Johnson wrote:
> Apparently, I did not compile support for my specific chipset on my
> latest kernel, causing my hard drive not to be able to support
> DMA.=3D20 How would I determine the chipset on my motherboard so that I
> can recompile my kernel? Or if this doesn't sould like it would be
> the cause of not having DMA, I'm open to those suggestions as well :)
>
> Thanks.

=46rom a command line, 'lspci -v' will tell you the chipsets and devices.=20
You can 'modprobe <module name>' for the chipset and then use 'hdparm'=20
to enable dma.
=2D-=20
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: (907)276-0461
email: pabi@acsalaska.net
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