Check /proc/ide/hda file for using_dma value. It is normally set to 1. More DMA related troubleshooting is on: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5203
Regards Sirish |-----Original Message----- |From: Prashant Verma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:01 AM |To: multiple recipients of |Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Speeding up Linux Install | | |--- Vijay Avarachen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> Prashant, |> I have a feeling that your harddrive does not |> support DMA (Direct |> Memory Access) which to be quite frank is very odd. |> Most harddrives |> from my understanding do support DMA. | |I'm sure the hard drive does support DMA. I'm trying |to get to the spec page of the HD 80GB 5400 MSR38 US |to confirm that it does. The results of uname -a on my |system are: |2.4.19-16mdk | |>As far as |> your concerns about not |> having proper drivers for your harddrive are highly |> unlikely. Kernel |> 2.4.xx covers most of them....i have tried linux on |> some really beaten |> down boxes but never had to worry about harddrive |> drivers. Thanks for |> shareing that oreillynetwork link. | |Is there any web page where I can confirm whether this |hardware model is supported by my OS? |-Prashant | | | |__________________________________________________ |Do you Yahoo!? |Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site |http://webhosting.yahoo.com | | ================================================ |To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with |unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
