Re: SATA Conflict with PATA DMA

[Bill Waddington]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:42:22 UTC, in fa.linux.kernel you wrote:

>Esben Stien wrote:
>> I'm having problems enabling DMA for my PATA HD.
>> 
>> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb reports: 
>> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>> 
>> Of course, I'm super user. Nothing is printed in dmesg. 
>> 
>> I'm on linux-2.6.16 and motherboard is Fujitsu Siemens D1561 with an
>> ICH5. I also have a SATA hd in the computer and this only happens when
>> the SATA hd is there. If I remove the SATA HD, then I can enable DMA
>> for the PATA hd.
>
>Disabled combined mode in BIOS.

If only that was possible on my fscking T43.  *sigh*

Bill
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