Package: hdparm Version: 6.3-3 Severity: normal I upgraded my Etch system a couple of months ago, and since then it's been horribly slow. I've discovered that the problem is that DMA isn't being set on any of my IDE drives. When I try to set it manually with hdparm, I get this:
aeon:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) I've googled around for people who've run into similar problems, but it always seems to be caused by badly configured kernels. I've tried this with the stock kernels 2.6.12-1-k7, 2.6.15-1-k7 and 2.6.16-1-k7, and they all behave the same way. I've also tried compiling a custom kernel with the IDE drivers compiled in, since this seems to cause some people's problems, but this also behaves the same way. So I don't think it's a kernel issue, or everyone would be complaining. I can't think of anything else to investigate here. I've tried posting to the Debian forums: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=4004 ....but no-one replied. The error message isn't very helpful (I'm running as root, so it surely can't be a permissions problem like it suggests). So I'm posting a bug. It's probably not even a problem with hdparm, but I have no way to find out what the real problem is, and hdparm seems the likeliest candidate I can find. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hdparm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii lsb-base 3.0-16 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip hdparm recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
