Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
wrote:
> David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM:
> > I get:
> > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> >
> >
> > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the
> > SATA
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And possibly a common fluke. Linux Questions stated something like this:
"This is normal, benign error: SATA is not fully recognized as DMA capable.
Forget about this error."
Such was my suspicion since those disks are working just fine :-)
Xubuntu forum suggested checking dmesg:
~$ dmesg | grep Direct
[ 0.948971] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD800JB-00ET 77.0
PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 0.985211] scsi 2:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD10EACS-00Z 01.0
PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
and also suggested ignoring that error message.
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