On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 05:27, Angelo Machils wrote: > You should try hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdc as root and on my Plextors (716A > burner and 116A reader) it works without problems. Still have to find > out where to put this statements for both drives so they work at startup > of the system. > Tried that but still get this error: [root@terrabyte ~]# hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2) using_dma = 0 (off) If this worked I would put this in the /etc/rc.local file which gets run at startup. > The issue you see that you manually have to mount them seems to be a > universal problem with Plextors under FC (don't know about other > distros). Someone on this list also noticed this on FC (with a 716A and > 320A) and filed a bug-report: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143421 > The hint about upgrading the kernel to a testing one doesn't help btw. > > Kind regards, Angelo > Thanks for the pointer on this bug report. Sad part is that I had done some searches on this before building the system and had not come across it. I initially thought it might be something with using KDE but the same problem occurs using Gnome. Thanks for the info. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Slous' Contention: If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.
