-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Friday, 28 July 2006 22:36, Stefán István wrote: >> Hello! >> I'm not able to activate dma mode for cdrom drive in my laptop. >> # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd >> >> /dev/hdd: >> setting using_dma to 1 (on) >> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted >> using_dma = 0 (off) >> >> [snip] >> >> I think the problem is that there is no driver for this chipset compiled >> into the kernel. But I don't know which driver should be compiled into. I >> tried Intel PIIXn but it didn't help. >> >> Thanks for the help in advance, >> István > > You will need to set CONFIG_IDE=n, enable SCSI cdrom support > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR) and enable the Intel PIIX sata driver > (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX).
Isn't this deprecated? Wouldn't a better choice be to install the SATA driver ebuild? (Mainly trying to eliminate my own confusion here.) > > DMA should then work perfectly fine. However one side effect is that your > cdrom drive will become /dev/sr0, although I guess this can be fixed with a > udev rule. > - -- gentux echo "hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 18D3 4A9E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEymmeTPA54hjTSp4RAq00AKCCmRYYwKBE6fUCSRN70wHO7VMlSgCfQZsE 5D5oHh61ECHFb9CNJEgP17w= =wpX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
