On Sunday 19 November 2006 5:27 pm, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:59 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > I tried this:# /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc > > > > /dev/hdc: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > using_dma = 0 (off) > > What type of drive do you have? What IDE chipset do you have? > (`/sbin/lspci | grep IDE`) I'd wager that the kernel module for the > chipset is not loaded (which would force it to revert to much slower > PIO) but near as I can tell, every IDE driver in the stock Fedora kernel > builds are static in the kernel image, only SATA stuff is built as > modules. > > Hmm. This one will be tricky to debug, methinks... # /sbin/lspci | grep IDE 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)