Thanks Bob and Bruce for your suggestions. Quoting Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Have you compiled your kernel with > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
Yes, I have. > I get: > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > > > However, the man page says: > > -d Disable/enable the "using_dma" flag for this drive. > This option only works with a few combinations of > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > drives and interfaces which support DMA and which > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > are known to the IDE driver. In particular, the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > It could be that your controller card isn't supported. Is there a list of supported controller cards somewhere? I couldn't find it. Another possibility is that I connect the hard disk to the IDE controller on the motherboard. (I guess there's not much point using the Ultra DMA card if I can't get it to DMA...) Does this sound reasonable? Tim. -- Tim Bell .--_|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Department of Computer Science \_.--._/ University of Melbourne, Australia v -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
