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Re: help on hdparm

To: jeffj@xxxxxx
Subject: Re: help on hdparm
From: Glenn Shannon <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 08:29:12 +0900
Cc: jako fritz <meandi@xxxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <0864e0353190651FE8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
I, for one, have DevFS running along with hdparm and have all the settings 
fully tweaked. No problems here..

Glenn


jeffj@xxxxxx wrote:

> "jako fritz" <meandi@xxxxxx> said the following on the auspicious date of 
> 01-05-06:
>
> >i m not sure if this is to list to ask  it but i ll try anyway. hdparm
> >can t set the setdma flag HDIO_SET_DMA and give the error permission
> >denied. it s the cause of devfs becaus on exactly the same system but
> >with normal nodes it works just fine. Ok hdparm prolly is not adapted to
> >work with devfs. but has anyone encountered the problem and is there a
> >fix?
>
> It sounds like you tried using hdparm on the devfs system while not logged in 
> as root. I have tried to set the DMA stuff using hdparm on a system with 
> devfs and it gave no error, although it did crash the whole system. I have no 
> reason to believe devfs had anything to do with the crash though.
>
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