Thanks, John. That looks like it might be the ticket.
Peter M.
John Cianfarani wrote:
Something like this might apply to you.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=260894
Thanks
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter MacFarlane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:02 AM
To: John Cianfarani
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Trixbox and DMA
I tried setting the DMA "ON" with the -d but but this was refused. DMA
stayed off. The main message was:
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted!
That's why I'm thinking that the VIA chipset is incompatible. I also
reinstalled Trixbox to one HD but this has not helped. Before it had
spread itself onto both drives by default, not a great situation.
Is DMA normally ever stuck OFF?
Peter M.
John Cianfarani wrote:
If you do:
hdparm -v /dev/<drive> (should be something like hda1 or sda1)
what does it show for the using_dma setting? Using the same tool you
