[ale] hdparm fails setting DMA

[Richard Kolkovich]

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On 07/16/06 18:48, David Corbin published:
> On Sunday 16 July 2006 15:34, J. D. wrote:
>> hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
> 
> The whole reason for bringing this up is that something in gentoo is warning 
> me about this at startup.
> 
> trombone dcorbin # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   832 MB in  2.00 seconds = 415.70 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.45 seconds =   2.90 MB/sec

Do you have DMA enabled in your kernel config?  Those speeds indicate
that DMA is not turned on, and your previous posting of "Permission
Denied" errors lend to DMA being disabled on the kernel-level.


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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org

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