Re: DMA Problem

[Marcel Gschwandl <tautau@gmx.ch>]

Hi again,

I was root. As non root I would get
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Permission denied
and not 
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

thanks anyway
Marcel


On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:34, Klaus Rechert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> try as root
> 
> 	Klaus
> 
> 
> On 06 Jul 2003 16:19:06 +0200
> Marcel Gschwandl <tautau@gmx.ch> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I already asked about this issue once but didn't get any answers so I
> > try it again.
> > 
> > I have an IBM Thinkpad A31p with Debian sarge + some sid packages on it.
> > Recently I updated to kernel 2.4.21 but with this kernel it seems not to
> > be possible to change into DMA mode. (it was possible with 2.4.20).
> > 
> > A "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" reports:
> > /dev/hda:
> >  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> >  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> > Has anybody a hint why this can happen or at least where I can get some
> > answers?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Marcel
> > 
> > -- 
> > Marcel Gschwandl <tautau@gmx.ch>
> > 
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