Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: is this not deafault? Not on my system. m16 sets to 16 ;) but: is m16 not the default setting? Again not on my system. I don't know, if there is any combination today, that makes probs, but not using -u is wasting performance. Don't complain about

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Grant
My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain though. I tend to build

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K Nice... Any idea how to pull this off with S/ATA? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I.

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Gordon
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, is hdparm supposed to be used when specific IDE support is not included in the kernel? It sounds like the kernel optimally configures your device if that support is included. hdparm sounds like it does the same thing. My understanding is that the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-13 Thread Grant
Actually, is hdparm supposed to be used when specific IDE support is not included in the kernel? It sounds like the kernel optimally configures your device if that support is included. hdparm sounds like it does the same thing. My understanding is that the kernel will automagically

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Gordon
Grant wrote: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted Does the kernel you built for those have support for the appropriate IDE controller chipset? You can get this information with `lspci | grep IDE'. (lspci is part of the sys-apps/pciutils package.) For example on my system I have a VIA