DMA not permitted

darkbrace · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 8

I'm running an amd k6-2 500mhz box...and well, it just took almost a minute and a half to open up a terminal in gnome. I checked w/hdparm and DMA is off.
I ran hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda
and the output as follows:
HDIO_SET_DMA:Operation Not Permitted

Yes I am doing this command as root, as as of now root is the only user able to log into X...that's another kettle of fish.

Any help on the DMA bit would be appreciated.

Regor · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:25 am Post subject:

Make sure you compile support for your IDE chipset into your kernel.
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