On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Namita Iyer wrote: > > Hi Saifi, > > From the output it seems that your hardware does support udma5 > > DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 > > > But for some reason the setting shows DMA turned off. > > using_dma = 0 (off) > > Try turning it on. (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) > > Namita >
Hi Namita: Issued the command to both the disks and there was 'Operation not permitted' error ! gentoo ~ # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) gentoo ~ # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) gentoo ~ # Any suggestions ? thanks Saifi.
