-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Apr 2003 19:09:49 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 19:02, Steve Snyder wrote: > > > DMA is not enabled automatically on this hard disk. OK. The problem is > > that I can't enable it with hdparm either (shown below). I have > > installed all the RH-released updates, including the kernel update. > > Edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file and just uncomment the lines in it, > reboot, and that should work for you. No, it would not. The /etc/sysconfig/harddisk* mechanism would also use hdparm. But he showed that hdparm fails. Apart from that, the proper way would be to create a device-specific /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda file instead of editing the defaults for all devices in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks. But recent kernels should do the right thing out of the box. For instance, I don't need to "tune" anything via /etc/sysconfig/harddisk* anymore. The kernel chooses exactly the settings which I had chosen manually with older kernels. Back to the original problem, could it be that the harddisk model is on a blacklist inside the kernel? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+p7QH0iMVcrivHFQRAgwpAJ95CCBjvwxXGns7UR6bz4F4JILIDACeL+Nt 4H9OaaDhh2M3usIi+wGMmmE= =s1y4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
