Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:08:32 +0100 From: Massimo Arnaudo <arnaudo_linux@tin.it> Message-ID: <20001114230832.A533@tin.it> Subject: Re: [SLE] ALI15X3 * martedì 14 novembre 2000, alle 12:37, Ben Rosenberg scrive:
You should use hdparm to do this. Someone else on the list may be able to help you with this. For obvious reasons (I work for SuSE) I cannot.
The "not 100% native mode" statement means there is another bus besides and ISA bus...meaning a PCI bus. You can ignore this..it means nothing.
Yes, i have used this command, but it didn' t make any result root@linux:/home/max > hdparm -A1 -d1 -c1 -X34 -m16 -W1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1 setting multcount to 16 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 34 (multiword DMA mode2) setting drive read-lookahead to 1 (on) setting drive write-caching to 1 (on) multcount = 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma = 0 (off) root@linux:/home/max > regards Massimo --- Genova ITALIA