I thought that myself, but got curious, why the #debian.de FAQ told me
that "it could be possible that the BIOS activated the UDMA-mode already
(marked with *). You don't have to do anything in this case. If not you
have to enable it using hdparm afterwards."
Well, there's a kernel option to automatically enable DMA if it's detected, at least in 2.4.18. I don't recall exactly where, and alas, I can't access my box from here :-/. But I compiled the kernel to support my motherboard's chipset, enabled the option in the kernel to automatically enable DMA if detected, and now it detects and enables it when I boot :)
-- Kevin
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