"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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