as far as I know the '*' doesn't indicate the current state of the Drive it only indicates the standard setting of the Firmware. But some how this isn't used in my case. And I suppose that if it would be already enabled a "hdparm /dev/hda" wouldn't report this: <output> /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 7752/240/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0 </output>
and I think with enabled DMA I should be able to copy Files from that HD faster than at 2MB/s (At least this is the case on my colleague's notebook ;-) ). greets Marcel On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:59, Matt Foster wrote: > Quoting Marcel Gschwandl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > the HD should be able to handle DMA because I was able to enable it with > > hdparm and an kernel 2.4.20. > > > > output of "hdparm -I /dev/hda": > > > > <output> > > /dev/hda: > > > > DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 > > Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns > > Well, this bit seems to show the driver operating at udma5, which means > DMA100. So that implies that its already enabled. > > I have no idea at all why you can't change it though.
