I would guess that you're either not root when trying to change the settings or you have an old disk that doesn't support DMA.
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 18:23 -0500, LostSon wrote: > Hello > I am trying to set hdparm on my laptop and keep getting this error > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma = 0 (off) > > I have gone through my kernel configs looking for anything dma related > i may need but cant seem to find anything. Any ideas, thanks. -- Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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