Saifi Khan wrote: > > 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. > Looks like you did not enable the chipset on your motherboard in your kernel configuration :-(
You will need to enable it and recompile the kernel. (To find out which vendor's IDE chipset is present on your motherboard you can use lspci -v) Let us know how it goes. Namita
