Same here ############ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ############# sudo hdparm -d1 -X udma6 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device setting xfermode to 70 (UltraDMA mode6) SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ############# This is with 12.04 LTS Trying to track down the source of nasty swapping freezes that lock the system for 10+ minutes while kswapd thrashes with 4G of memory and not much running. grep DMA /var/log/messages returns null, I don't really know if that's good or bad. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257840 Title: failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/257840/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
