u can either put this in in rc.d, or in 2.4 kernels, its a kernel option, which
enables DMA on the
bus at boot...
there's a -k option with hdparm, but i dunno how many drives implement this... u could
give it a
try...
Nikhil.
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:02:47AM +0530, jayant kumar wrote:
> By default HDD is initialized in 16 bit IO mode without DMA. I enabled
> 32bit IO using
> hdparm -c1 /dev/hda
> & tested it using hdparm -Tt /dev/hda.
> My HDD developed new speed.
> But when i rebooted my system the setting was lost.
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