[ltp] is Ultrabay hot swappable

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:02:04 +0100


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Hi,

> /dev/hdc:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> 
> This is after running hotswap.
> The drives are swappable just fine.
> Unfortunately no DMA on the hard drive translates into 2MB throughput.
> This time i googled before i wrote, but to no avail.
> 
> Has anybody figured out howto fix this?

There's no known fix, yet.

BTW: Did anyone ever try manually disabling DMA before running hotplug
and then trying to reenable it afterwards?

André.
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