On 21/03/02 Patrick Lane did speaketh: > blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done > > /dev/hda: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > > /dev/hdb: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > blacktop:/home/mandingo# > > It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel?
Possibly. I had to on my wife's computer. To a dmesg and look for your
brand of IDE controller. Make sure said controller is turned on in the kernel.
That's what I had to do to get DMA working.
Mike
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