Re: DMA Problem
Quoting 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
>
have you tried querying the drive with hdparm -I?
This should give you some indication of if can handle DMA.
If you find It can't, you may need specific kernel drivers to enable it.
I, for example, have an NForce2 chipset which works ok with generic IDE
support, but won't do DMA transfers (or mode changes) without a patch.
cheers,
Matt
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