[ale] hdparm fails setting DMA

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 11:26, Benjie wrote:
> You can do a hdparm -i device to list the features of the drive.  This
> will also tell you what mode the drive is in.
>
> Benjie
>
>trombone dcorbin # hdparm -i /dev/hda 
I'm not sure what it really means, but it looks to me like it does support 
DMA.

/dev/hda:

 Model=HDS722580VLAT20, FwRev=V32OA63A, SerialNo=VNR8GEC2TTL9DL
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=52
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1794kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160836480
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:  ATA/ATAPI-2 
ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6

 * signifies the current active mode