On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:06:31AM -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
It seems that I cannot set DMA with hdparm on this drive without
driving
the system into a lockup.
I'd strongly suggest flashing the ATAPI/IDE firmware to the device not
the RAID firmware (or setting the BIOS option, or kernel boot option) if
you are having these kind of problems. The IT8212 smart firmware seems
to be somewhat touchy.