apperently it is a kernel compilation problem: I booted the kernel from
mandrake with the parameters you sayed and it worked. There is a 50%
improovment on benchmarks, but in real life not so much.
I looked at the docs and the kernel configuration and have not find what I
should set on. Can you help me?
- diego
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From: Alon Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Linux-IL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: hdparm
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I tried it without sucsess:
> >
> > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> > setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1
> > setting multcount to 16
> > setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> > setting keep_settings to 1 (on)
> > multcount = 16 (on)
> > I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
> > using_dma = 0 (off)
> > keepsettings = 1 (on)
> >
> > Acording to documentation/ide.txt in kernel 2.4.4, I should insert the
ide.o
> > module with "idex=dma", how do I do when the module is built into the
> > kernel? Is it the what the first error line says? BTW: it's a mandrake
7.2
> > with official kernel builed by hand with gcc 2.95.
>
> In lilo.conf add append="ide0=dma" to your main image options. Then run
> lilo, and reboot.
>
> Alon
>
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