On 18 Jul 2003, John Little wrote:
> >I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2 m/board and Maxtor
> >30GB ATA133 hard disk.
> >I tried switching on DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda but got the following
> >error message:
> >
> >HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >

[snip]

Not sure if this will help, but with a VIA chipset I had to enable

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y

to get DMA to work.

AC


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