On a Debian-derived distro (Kubuntu 9.04) on a Dell Inspiron (2 GHz Intel, 2 GiB RAM), I notice that my hard drive does not have DMA enabled:
$ sudo hdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: IO_support = 0 (default) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 9729/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 This is my first sata hard drive, so I do not know if sata drives need DMA or if maybe the sata controller does the copying instead of the CPU. Googling the subject leaves me with no definite conclusion. What say the laptop list? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
