I had this same problem when I was connecting a good drive to an old, CMD chipset ATA-66 card. Once I replaced it with a newer promise card it worked perfectly.
ttyl, james > When I try to get dma to work with my hard drive, I get the following error: > > -- > # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc > > /dev/hdc: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > # > -- > > Does anyone know why this might happen? It's a brand new drive, there's > no reason this shouldn't work... > > > -- > Joel Konkle-Parker > Webmaster [Ballsome.com] > > Phone [+1 662-518-1636] > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]