Re: [ILUG] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Sun 20 May 2001 - 11:21:41 IST


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



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