-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-03-14 at 19:56 +0100, pelibali wrote:
What does hdparm say on the device?
Without DMA it says trinity:~ # hdparm /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 239/64/32, sectors = 0, start = 0 trinity:~ #
With DMA enabled it says <...> using_dma = 1 (on) <...>
Ah, so it allows you to enable dma. It looks correct to me, except that as I don't have a zip drive on IDE, I can't compare. Perhaps somebody else can :-? I just noticed another one, for two of my HD: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) The other one and the DVD shows: IO_support = 1 (32-bit) I'll have to investigate that one, but I don't think that one would make such a big difference for you.
I don't know hdparm more, so I'm afraid this is not the info you really asked for... Maybe you would need these:
No, that's what I asked for, but the next data you send is also interesting.
trinity:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
Model=IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, FwRev=51.G, SerialNo= Config={ SpinMotCtl Removeable nonMagnetic } RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
No multiple sector read. That's bad - but you can't do anything about it, I think. It is that way.
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:500,w/IORDY:180}, tDMA={min:180,rec:180} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 DMA modes: *mdma0
And this is worse: it only accepts the lowests of the DMA modes, but then, the device is, after all, an improved floppy, so it is slow.
AdvancedPM=no
* signifies the current active mode
I wonder if you can test that data with an older 9.x distro? To compare. Perhaps just booting the rescue system on dvd would allow to run hdparm and see. If you see "multisector" is not "0", then that would be it.
Add it in /etc/udev/static_devices.txt
Hmmm. The format used there is completely new for me!
Me too - I don't use 10.0, I just have it on a test partition.
As first I added "hdd4 b 22 68 640", making the device's permissions good, but owned by root:root and not root:disk. Any idea to fix this please?!
nop.
(After I mount a disk, the permissions get fixed and both root:root and root:disk works. Independently of that I would like to fix...)
Change the ownership of the mount point or the directories once mounted. Hold on, it is fat, no? Then the ownership is fixed in /etc/fstab options. It's late, I'm disconecting, but you can find that in many posts. If not, I'll comment tomorrow.
Regards & many thanks Carlos,
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