Rajko M. wrote: [...] > You said that they are IDE drives on older 500 MHz system, so hdparm should > be > right application. I'm not familiar with hdparm internals so I ran test on my > older computer with 10.3 alpha 1 and it shows the same error, although I used > > symlink hda that points to sda ie. solving naming: > hdparm -c1 /dev/hda > That might be because the device ID major is changed from 3 to 8. Which > probably confuses hdparm. The > hdparm -i /dev/hda > claims that parameter is not applicable for the device. The same works fine > in > 10.2.
The cause is the transition to libata IDE drivers. Libata currently doesn't support DMA mode change. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264681#c14 for details. Ladislav -- Best Regards Ladislav Slezák Yast Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
