On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Peter MacFarlane wrote: > I tried setting the DMA "ON" with the -d but this was refused. DMA stayed > off. The main message was: > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted! > > That's why I'm thinking that the VIA chipset is incompatible.
The SATA drivers with VIA are problematic. You are probably better of using an old PATA drive. > Is DMA normally ever stuck OFF? Doesn't this create a bottleneck in terms of > processing speed? I don't think asterisk needs the disk that much for it to be a problem, but I'm not running a large scale enterprise asterisk either. Paul
