[ILUG] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

[Vincent Cunniffe]

Conor Daly wrote:

> Little problem here with hdparm and DMA.  I'm using an AMD K6-2 350MHz on
> some kind of amibios mobo with "Ultra DMA Enabled" in CMOS but I cannot
> set "using dma" for the drive(s).


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> hda: Maxtor 91021U2, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive


Longshot here, but wasn't there at one stage a fairly serious problem 
with these makes of drive interoperating on the same IDE controller?

I've certainly never seen that hdparm response before.

Regards,

Vin