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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 9:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Maxtor 27 gig drive
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> The system is now up and operating. I do have one minor problem though.
> Linux doesn't seem to support the ALI 15xx chipset for the IDE controller
it
> says unknown IDE type and won't let me use UDMA or DMA mode. Does anyone
> know if there is a patch or anything I can do to get it to work in DMA or
> UDMA or do I need to buy a new mother board?
>
> I know most of what I typed here is not relevant to my problem just
thought
> my experiences might help some one else.
>
> Ken Hughes
Try 'info hdparm'. If you can enable dma using '-d1' (among
other parameters), then you could add a hdparm line to rc.local.
Mine looks like this for a WD 8.4g:
hdparm -m8 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hdb
Tried that it won't let me
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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
