On Thursday 02 January 2003 07:02 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.01.02 at 17:46, David Herman wrote:
My Drives are all IDE drives and the cdrw and dvd are ATAPI. On the first IDE cable I have Seagate Hard drive #1......./dev/hda, the dvd player....................../dev/dvd (a link to /dev/scd0) On the second IDE cable is Seagate HD #2..................../dev/hdc and the cdrw......................../dev/cdrom (a link to /dev/sr0)
I've tried yast2 and hdparm to enable dma on the drives but when all is said and done everything stays as it was :-( (Yast reports "Device /dev/hdx: Cannot set DMA to value 1") hdparm -d1 /dev/hda gets the following result /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) hdparm on the other devices gives similar results
I understand that hdparm fails to set DMA on your Seagate HD, and that is a bad signal. What I would try is connecting both hardisks on IDE cable number one, and the DVD and CDrom on the second cable. I had to do that on my system to get it working faster.
Thanks that idea did occur to me as I was writing my lengthy mail. hopefully I'll have time to try that tomorrow, I'll let the list know if it works. Thanks for your reply -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!