On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>
> Yes you will but you still don't need hdparm to set DMA mode.
>
> Kernel 2.4 is *very* good at doing that automatically, provided you have
> your kernel compiled right.
I had my kernel compiled with DMA support, passed some command line
parameters throug lilo.conf and DMA was not set by kernel; I did it by
"hand (hdparm)".
I'm using a Dell OptiPlex GX110 with i810 chipset and a Maxtor 20GB
UDMA.
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