Marko M?kel? kirjoitti: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: > >> So, hdparm did no good. >> > > Did you try sdparm? Serial ATA looks like SCSI to some tools. > Nope, because there was no sdparm. For some reason did not think to check if such exists at all :) This is what sdparm gives but I don't have the knowledge to find dma specific info in this. I see that there is something about dma but is it enabled or not?? sdparm --long /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA ST3200822AS 3.01 Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0 DPOFUA=0 Read write error recovery [rw] mode page: AWRE 1 Automatic write reallocation enabled ARRE 1 Automatic read reallocation enabled PER 0 Post error Caching (SBC) [ca] mode page: WCE 1 Write cache enable RCD 0 Read cache disable Control [co] mode page: SWP 0 Software write protect sdparm --long /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: ATA SAMSUNG SP0812C SU10 Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0 DPOFUA=0 Read write error recovery [rw] mode page: AWRE 1 Automatic write reallocation enabled ARRE 1 Automatic read reallocation enabled PER 0 Post error Caching (SBC) [ca] mode page: WCE 1 Write cache enable RCD 0 Read cache disable Control [co] mode page: SWP 0 Software write protect \\Kartsa