Same problems here on gutsy. Got 7200 hitachi pata drive, wich reports that it should support udma5. It's set on udma2 and hdparm can't change this parameter (or any other). The read/write times are making me really annoyed.
hdparm -i /dev/sda: Model=HTS721010G9AT00 , FwRev=MCZOA51A, SerialNo= MPC0N7Y0H8P3UL Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7539kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16? CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=195371568 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6 hdparm -tT: Timing cached reads: 1390 MB in 2.00 seconds = 695.08 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.46 seconds = 5.20 MB/sec uname -r: 2.6.22-14-generic hdparm -d1 /dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device -- hdparm - cannot set dma on IDE hard drive that works via pata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110636 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs