On the 18th of December 2005 at 15:35, Craig Hagerman <craighagerman#gmail.com> wrote: > Meanwhile the -d activating option fails: > > $ hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > > Any advice concerning this? How does one get dma activated? Try this command as root :) (I guess that "$" is prompt in non-root shell). m.m. -- use gnus, not guns!