Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On 26 Aug 2002, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Il lun, 2002-08-26 alle 21:45, Nate Eldredge ha scritto: > > > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > > case /d

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > > be "hda=d

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel command l

Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
sabled has given me trouble with CD burning and video capture, and you should not have to be an expert to be able to turn it on. (I consider that expecting newbies to write an init script or look up kernel command line options is not really reasonable.) Also, it may give people the impression that Deb