[clug-talk] DMA won't set

[Gustin Johnson]

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Your kernel needs to have the correct driver for the chipset.  You will
likely need an initrd image with this driver or build this driver
directly into your kernel.

Nick Wiltshire wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a machine here that is refusing to set DMA to on. I have it set to do 
> it at boot (it's a gentoo box) but it ignores that, and then I try it 
> manually and get:
> 
> #hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> 
> 
> Anyone have any idea why this might happen?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
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