From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DIb-0001h0-2n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:28:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78JQXSF026495; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:26:33 GMT Received: from sysconcept.ca (103.205-206-12-0.interbaun.com [205.206.12.103] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j78JHinu030004 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:17:45 GMT Received: by sysconcept.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60E772EB38A; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:18:31 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting "using_dma" on a BenQ DVD/RW drive From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42F7A38D.8090705@cisco.com> References: <1123517023.20641.4.camel@sysconcept.ca> <1123520963.20643.9.camel@sysconcept.ca> <42F79BE8.9060109@dir.bg> <42F7A38D.8090705@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:18:31 -0600 Message-Id: <1123528711.20648.25.camel@sysconcept.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 69addddb-23a6-4f7f-8e01-1df601e6b41c X-Archives-Hash: 98cf0d0beaa6485e362d82bc3bf2e441 On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:25 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > royw-gentoo linux # dmesg | grep -i dma > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 > ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 145226112 sectors: lba48 > ata1: dev 1 ATA, max UDMA/133, 145226112 sectors: lba48 > ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 > ata1: dev 1 configured for UDMA/133 > Is your DVD units SCSI, if so you will not be able to use hdparm to set any options. hdparm doesn't work with SCSI unit, you can list the parameters but not set them. My BenQ DW1620 is an IDE unit connected to hdd so I should be able to set the parameters using "hdaprm". I can set some parameters but not DMA with "-d1" -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list