2008/4/23, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all. > > > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and > 2.6.21. > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it > is > > not working. > > > > The command I run and its output are: > > > > # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > > > Did someone get this message before or know to solve it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rafael > > > What chipset, particularly the IDE chips, are on that very old network? > > You may need to compile the kernel with the appropriate driver rather than > the > ide-generic. I had this with a via chipset MB. > > > Hi David. thanks the reply and sorry for taking so long to answer. I'm not very sure if I understand what you mean by 'IDE chips' and therefore I'm not sure how can I find it it my system. Maybe you could explain or inform me the appropriated command...
Not sure if it helps, but my harddisk is a "Toshiba MK4006MAV" and, according to /proc/ide/ide0/hda/driver, it is using the driver ide-disk. Does this help? Cheers, Rafael
