At 09:50 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:38, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> At 09:17 AM 10/30/2003, you wrote:
> >using_dma = 0 (off)
>
> >What other hdparm flags can I _safely_ use, I don't want to trash my
> >disk.
>
> The fact that DMA is *off* immediately jumped out at me. This can/should be
> on with any or most modern HDs and/or controllers.
>
I get this when trying to enable dma, any ideas?


laptop root # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)

My idea ?? Your hardware doesn't support DMA.


Hall


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