On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:00:14AM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > 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?
You could try putting: dma=on as a kernel option in your /boot/grub/menu.lst (if you are using grub) i.e. kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 dma=on Reboot, then see if it is turned on. hdparm will list the settings. -- Chris. ====== "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]