On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:07, Gavin McCord wrote: > Kyle Gordon wrote: > >It might your DMA settings, which you can tweak with the hdparm tool. > >/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/xxxX will enable DMA for a device, and just hdparm > > Make sure the kernel has support for your motherboard chipset in it. I > created a custom kernel recently and tried hdparm till I was blue in the > face, until I compiled in the right driver. > Hmmm. Sounded good. Unfortunately my Suse 9.0 install recognised it was also a CD writer and setup SCSI emulation - and you can't run hdparm on a SCSI drive....but its still talking to the IDE drive...so I tried your suggestion on /dev/hdc, and turned on 32bit I/O for good measure....and Hey Presto! it worked.
In fact it worked so well I've decided to use it on all my hard drives ;) Remind me to buy you a pint after the next meet. Thanks also to Lawrence for the suggestion to check the fb device. Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
