Re: Unable to enable IDE harddisc DMA on VIA KT 880, VIA VT 8237 chipset
On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:58, J. Grant wrote:
> I wonder if someone could help me get my hard drives running a a
> reasonable performance. I installed a debian sarge preview in Jan this
> year. See attatched install report if you would like to see the
> details.
debian-boot is not the correct list for such questions.
Please ask on debian-user.
> now2g:/home/now3d# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> using_dma = 0 (off)
Looks like you try to give this command as normal user. Try as root...
Cheers,
FJP
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