Re: hdparm dma not working

["jterris" <shinden@sympatico.ca>]

I had this same problem when I was connecting a good drive
to an old, CMD chipset ATA-66 card. Once I replaced
it with a newer promise card it worked perfectly.

ttyl,
james

> When I try to get dma to work with my hard drive, I get the following
error:
>
> --
> # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
>   setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>   HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>   using_dma    =  0 (off)
> #
> --
>
> Does anyone know why this might happen? It's a brand new drive, there's
> no reason this shouldn't work...
>
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