RE: [Thinstation-general] CF-IDE adaptor with no DMA support

[Trevor B. <tre...@us...>]

Unfortunately I have just lost my little epia board with cfdisk (it
became a replacement server...), so can't test. But it was an onboard cf
reader, so may have been different anyway.

Are you sure that those errors relate to the delay & time-out? There can
be many network issues that can cause these type of problem, including
lack of dns etc.

If the cf card doesn't work, have you removed the 'module pcmcia' line?

Trevor B

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:38 +1000, Paul Mitchener wrote:
> Thanks for that Trevor. I had the nodma option in the wrong part of the
> syslinux.cfg file. That was one thing I tried. Although this does not
> seem to be rectifying my problem.  I am using a Sandisk 64Mb CF card and
> a generic CF adaptor. Are there any more ideas on getting rid of these
> error messages.
> 
> Thanks
> Paul. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Batley [mailto:tr...@ba...] 
> Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2005 3:15 PM
> To: Paul Mitchener
> Cc: thi...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] CF-IDE adaptor with no DMA support
> 
> You pass kernel parameters via the syslinux.cfg (or
> pxelinux.cfg/default) file.
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#config
> 
> Trevor B
> 
> Quoting Paul Mitchener <pa...@pb...>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a small issue with my CF adaptors. They do not seem to be CF 
> > compliant. I am using TS 2.1.5 using Syslinux. On boot I receive the 
> > error message dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21.
> >
> > I have found some posts on various, on mentioned "You can use a
> "nodma"
> > option on the kernel command line to disable DMA, I think." 
> > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jun/0921.html
> >
> > Where do I find the appropriate file to make this change? and is this 
> > option available with the Thinstation linux kernel?
> >
> > Any ideas welcome as the TS's take a long time to start due to this 
> > error and timeout period occuring twice during boot.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul.
> >
> 
> 
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