2008/4/26 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:00:14AM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is > > not working. > > > > The command I run and its output are: > > > > # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > > > Did someone get this message before or know to solve it? > > You could try putting: > > dma=on > > as a kernel option in your /boot/grub/menu.lst (if you are using grub) > > i.e. > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 dma=on > > Reboot, then see if it is turned on. hdparm will list the settings. > > -- > Chris. > ====== > "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned > at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Thanks for the reply, Chris, but it didn't work. Same error message was displayed in boot time. Any other ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
