So there seems to be also a dma issue with the 2.6.20-15 . Some more notes :-
I removed the first HDD power link momentarily & made sure that its written as uninstalled the first HDD.& then booted from the CD. So this time it takes the 80 GB hdd as sda sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1460 11727418+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1461 9484 64452780 83 Linux /dev/sda3 9485 9733 2000092+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Any ideas folks? -- poor performance hard disk IDE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
