Re: (no subject)

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 03:21, Bruce wrote:
> > if you run ogle --debug it will try to find information about your drives
> > and print that along with some (hopefully) helpfull hints.
>
> Thanks, I'll try that.
>
> > And yes mostlikely it's something like /deb/hdc or /dev/hdd that you
> > want. Strange that hdparm accepted those other drive specifications,
> > though I'm not all that fammiliar with newer kernels and/or devfs etc.
>
> No, this is a peculiarity of using devfs and ide-scsi - there is no
> /dev/hdx. It seems that you have to specify something similar (but not
> identical to) the full scsi path. Quoting from Q.31 of the FAQ:
>
>  NOTE (devfs and ide-scsi): If you use devfs and ide-scsi
>  you won't get any /dev/hdc device to run hdparm on (if
>  /dev/hdc is the dvd drive using ide-scsi). Instead you
>  need to use 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/generic'.
>
> The question is how do I figure out what to substitute for  "/dev/ide.."
> in the above to turn dma on for my drive; I set out the possible
> variations I could think of in my earlier post, none of which were
> successful in getting rid of the choppy video.
>
> B.
I'm using Mepis, which installs a Debian GnuLinux
root@0[liz_dodd]# hdparm -i /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:

 Model=JLMS XJ-HD166S, FwRev=DS14, SerialNo=
 Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
 RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
 (maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:227,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
 AdvancedPM=no
 Drive conforms to: device does not report version:

 * signifies the current active mode

Yes, It's ide-scsi.
Liz

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