On 06/10/05, LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I am trying to set hdparm on my laptop and keep getting this error > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > > I have gone through my kernel configs looking for anything dma related > i may need but cant seem to find anything. Any ideas, thanks.
Probably you didn't compile in the right chipset. Have a look in kernel config: Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support and make sure that you have "Generic PCI bus-master DMA support" turned on together with the right chipset. regards pshemko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list