Cannot enable dma on cdrw

megaspaz · 09-01-2003, 02:07 PM

my dad came over and i installed red hat 7.3 on his dell latitude c800 laptop. his laptop is about 6-7 months newer than mine. the problem i'm having is that enabling dma on his fixed dvdrom drive and the modular bay cdrw is failing. my laptop, dell inspiron 8100, has a fixed cdrw drive and modular bay dvdrom drive and dma enables fine for both of them. anyway, i was thinking that is because his modular bay cdrw is an atapi device, but his fixed dvdrom won't enable dma either and both of my devices enable dma fine. the only thing different on the install and setup that's different from mine is that he installed the red hat ntfs support patch rpm. any ideas? below is some hdparm info on my dad's modular bay cdrw.

Code:

[root@donslap ~]# hdparm -I /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:

ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
        Model Number:           TOSHIBA CD-RW/DVD-ROM SD-R2002
        Serial Number:
        Firmware Revision:      1E29
Standards:
        Used: ATAPI for CD-ROMs, SFF-8020i, r2.5
        Supported: CD-ROM ATAPI-2
Configuration:
        DRQ response: 50us.
        Packet size: 12 bytes
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Buffer size: 2048.0kB
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns
                               IORDY flow control=120ns

	     

[root@donslap ~]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 using_dma    =  0 (off)

any suggestions on fixes are much appreciated. thanks.

edit: whups! just saw the laptop forums here. please close this as i will post in the appropriate forum.

salparadise · 09-03-2003, 01:43 PM

try adding the following line to the /etc/modules.conf file

options hd-cd dma=1

save and reboot
(gasp, a reboot needed)

after reboot
try manually executing the hdparm -d1 command

Mad Merlin · 09-03-2003, 02:58 PM

I'd try a newer kernel if I were you, or try throwing the appropriate ac patch onto a kernel of your choice. I had a similar problem with enabling DMA on my IBM Thinkpad T40 for the hard drive and the CD-RW/DVD drive, the IDE controller wasn't supported by the Mandrake 9.1 kernel yet, after i tried 2.4.22-rc1-ac1, DMA worked like a charm.

So basically, try a newer kernel or a newer distro.