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s003apr
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Joined: 04 Oct 2002
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 Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 5:21 pm Post subject: help with hdparm |
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I am having trouble using hdparm.
When I had previously started the installation,
| Code: | | hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda |
had worked perfectly
After restarting my installation for a different reason, DMA setup no longer works.
I now get the classic
"HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted"
Several other posts have eluded to the fact that this could be a chipset problem, however they were intel chipsets and I am using a MSI KT3 Ultra2. Not to mention the fact that hdparm had worked successfully 60 minutes earlier when I had tried a different installation on this very same computer.
The steps I am going through (that I did previously) are:
login
| Code: | passwd
pci-setup
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda |
I then figured out how to setup my network with some work and then decided to start again with a clean slate. i never even proceeded to partitioning.
does anybody have a clue as to what could possibly make hdparm just stop working from one install to the next?
I don't know if any of this will help but
reveals multicount =0, IO-support = 1, unmaskirq =1, using_dma =0, keepsettings =0, readonly = 0, readahead=8 (on), geometry = 9729/255/63, sectores = 156301488, start =0
hdparm -t /dev/hda
reveals that the disk is reading at 5.77MB/sec |
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phong
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Joined: 16 Jul 2002
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Location: Michigan - 15 & Ryan
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My friend had the _exact_ same problem. Turns out it was a bug in a certain bios/chipset combination that was in conflict with kernel 2.4.19. You do have a different chipset, but I would try a different kernel. Try an older gentoo kernel (such as 2.4.19-gentoo-r7) or the vanilla-sources, or the ac-sources. In the case of the firend who was having the problem, using the newest ac-sources was the fix. Also, if you happen to have your kernel .config from the previous install, see if there's anything different in that from the current one.
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