On Saturday 05 August 2006 14:51, Mihir Sevak wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>    i tried to set my dma = 1 by
>                              "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda"
>    and got an error mesg.
>                             "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted"
> Of course next step was google on it and i varified that my kernel is
> tweaked like...
>
>
> <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
> <*>   Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
> <*>     Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
>  [*]     Use multi-mode by default

don't use this

> <*>     Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
>  [*]     PCI IDE chipset support
>  [*]       Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support
>  [*]       Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
>  [*]         Use PCI DMA by default when available
> <*>         Intel PIIXn chipsets support

and that is very probably wrong too. You need support for YOUR chipset. Not 
some random intel stuff.

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