Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

[Tim Beauregard <helycos@yahoo.co.uk>]

Mike Chandler wrote:
[...]
> Hey Tim,
> I'm in the same boat, except kernel-2.6.3-1.
> hdparm returns this error:
>
> root@debian:/home/mike# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> root@debian:/home/mike#
>
> I am stuck, I hope somebody has the answer...
> Thanks

Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that.