Hi!

I found the page “Linux on Olivetti Echos laptops” on your website.
Recently, I acquired an Echos P120C, then I decided to install “sid” Debian GNU/Linux with kernel 2.4.26 on it. All works fine, but i wasn’t able to enable dma on the hd ’cause “hdparm -d1 /dev/hda” says me “HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted”. Now my hd runs without dma and I got a transfer rate of about 2Mb/s… really too slow! I would like to know if you encountered same problems, and, if this is possible, how you solved them.

I apologize for this intrusion and for my bad english.

Gabriele Tozzi