Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I'm having trouble using hdparm (versions 3.6 and 4.1) on a Debian
> Potato system.
>
> When I do:
>
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
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> The message is: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted.
>
> Does anybody have any suggesstions why? The same hardware worked with
> DMA under Linux on Mandrake 7.0 (LX chipset + Maxtor disk drive)
>
> Even compiling my own version of hdparm doesn't help.
Generally you need to be root to use hdparm.
Even more generally you shouldn't need to use hdparm with 2.4.x kernels.
2.4.x has much better IDE support.
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