is your kernel compiled with dma support? because if it's not, thats not gonna work.
-- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I'm having trouble using hdparm (versions 3.6 and 4.1) on a Debian > > Potato system. > > > > When I do: > > > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > > > The message is: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted. > > > > Does anybody have any suggesstions why? The same hardware worked with > > DMA under Linux on Mandrake 7.0 (LX chipset + Maxtor disk drive) > > > > Even compiling my own version of hdparm doesn't help. > > Generally you need to be root to use hdparm. > > Even more generally you shouldn't need to use hdparm with 2.4.x kernels. > 2.4.x has much better IDE support. > > - -- > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC > GPG key id: 50DE1CFC > GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE6tGpK/ZTSZFDeHPwRAl1lAJ4jDRHK60VO8O/7GdCFgdarFo6qbwCeIuQA > z1O9xIx5WS3VBQcfHMN1DAE= > =O6v5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
