On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:41, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12.29, John Pettigrew wrote:
Do you know what device it was before it was an ide-scsi emulated monstrosity? Look at the boot parameters if you don't, it should say something like hdX=ide-scsi, where X is a, b, c or d. Let's say it's hdc
Run /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc to check the current settings. If dma is off, su to root and run /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc. even though the drive is using ide-scsi, hdparm will still work on the old ide device name.
Been there, tried that. Didn't work. Hdparm told me that DMA was off for this drive. So I tried the -d 1 and it told me that DMA was not allowed for this drive. Strange. So I looked in the BIOS, and it was there, Tried everything else I could think of including a re-build of the kernel in hopes of turning something on. Nope, nada. Nothing. BTW, I am using the smp kernel but I doubt that has anything to do with it. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 8.0 Kernel 2.4.18 KDE 3.0.2 Kmail 1.4.2 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://home.t-online.de/~jroark 7:19pm up 21:47, 3 users, load average: 1.52, 1.76, 1.91