[ale] hdparm fails setting DMA

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 19:49, J. D. wrote:
> > >Did you see something my earlier message that says it's VIA82CXXX?  Is
> >
> > there a
> >
> > >good (easy) way to figure out which a system has?
>
> Hmm.. Usually the best way to go is to look at the output of lspci. If you
> don't have it installed it is a part of the pciutils ebuild. If you could
> post the output of lspci and perhaps what model motherboard you have we'll
> see what you got.
>

lspci revealed it was in fact a VIA82CXXX.  Rebuilding the kernel with that 
option now allows dma to be set on.

Thanks for all the help.