Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

[Mike Chandler <mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net>]

On Monday 19 April 2004 01:16 pm, Mike Chandler wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 12:20 pm, Markus Schabel wrote:
> > Tim Beauregard wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I had that problem when i forgot to compile the piix drivers into the
> > kernel. after fixing that, all worked fine again.
> >
> > best regards, Markus
>
> Thanks for that,
>  I will look at my config file and try to find piix drivers, and recompile.

Hey Markus,
That was it, I couldn't really tell by the description in xconfig, but I 
looked in my mobo manual, and that was it!
Thanks.
Mike