Re: [Nolug] dma question

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:00, pltaylor wrote:
> In my quest to get dma working I recently changed motherboards to a ASUS
> P4B533-E w/intel 845-E chipset(old motherboard was SIS)
> Generic dma support is compiled into my kernel
> now when I try to turn dma on I get the following:
>
> plt@chon:~$ su
> Password:
> root@chon:/home/plt# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> using_dma = 0 (off)
> root@chon:/home/plt#

Do you have the relevant section from /var/log/dmesg, maybe some-
thing from /var/log/syslog, and the output from
# hdparm -i /dev/hda
# hdparm /dev/hda
# grep DMA /usr/src/linux/.config

-- 
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Ron Johnson, Jr.     mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net          |
| Jefferson, LA  USA   http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson  |
|                                                            |
| "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I   |
|  tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage |
|  the plane."                                               |
|    RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines    |
|                  Flight 63                                 |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
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