Re: intel D865PERL and DMA for disks (IDE)?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Saturday 13 of September 2003 02:19, Erik Steffl wrote:
>    I am trying to set the DMA for ide disks but get the following error:
>
>    jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>   setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>   HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>   using_dma    =  0 (off)
>
>    is it because it's not supported on given chipset or is there
> something I can do?
>
>    debian unstable
>    2.4.21-ac4 (+ libata5 patches from Jeff Garzik)
>    Intel D865PERL motherboard
>
>    there are only two kernel options that I can see are relevant to
> chipset I use:
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y

You should use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
or load piix module (may not be reliable).

>    TIA
>
> 	erik

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