Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Actually, is hdparm supposed to be used when specific IDE support is
not included in the kernel? It sounds like the kernel optimally
configures your device if that support is included. hdparm sounds
like it does the same thing.
My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA
as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically,
but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE
controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain though. I tend to build
everything into the kernel, and I've not needed to use hdparm.
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