On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:38:37PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:02:45AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > >I thought this sounded promising but it resists my attempts to set DMA, > >probably because I don't know what I'm doing. (/dev/hda is the > >CD/DVD-writer on this machine.) Am I missing or misusing some options? > > No, but there maybe two things: > 1) Do you have the chipset driver installed (compiled into the kernel > or loaded as module)? Look at dmesg output, what your kernel says > about your hardware. > > 2) You don't have a chipset supported by linux. Yes, this may happen. > > You could post the output of lspci and dmesg. > > Shade and sweet water!
You also want the output of 'hdparm /dev/hda' and 'hdparm -i /dev/hda'. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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