On Wednesday, 27.04.2005 at 10:51 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > The response to the command hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb is > > /dev/hdb: > Setting using-dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET-DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > > yet > > ll /proc/ide/hdb > > shows root has rw permissions for the settings file and the file contains > > Name Value Min Max Mode > using_dma 0 0 1 rw > > Since root has read/write permissions to this file, could - should? - I > edit it and change the Value to 1? > > hdb is a relatively new - purchased Dec. 2003 - 80 GB Western Digital drive. Can't say for sure whether what you suggest with editing /proc/ide/hdb is a good idea or not, but it sounds like The Wrong Way. The error you are reporting suggests to me that your IDE *controller* is not properly supported by your current kernel? Can you show us the results of 'lspci' and 'uname -r' Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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