Re: [LIH] hdparm with kernel2.4.1

[Kingsly John]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:

 |In my case, now what happens is, I had compiled the dma support in the
 |kernel and I was not using hdparm -d1 option to enable dma. Now after
 |putting the other able I have to use -d1 option of hdparm ? How this
 |happened any ideas ?
hmm.. that shouldn't be happening... 

 |But still even after putting append="idebus=66" in lilo.conf and lilo -v I
 |still get the old throughput which I used to get with the old udma33. Now
 |my bios also shows ATA66 when booting

did you try without the idebus=66 option ??? IMO the idebus speeds should
be autodetected.

what does hdparm -i /dev/hda show you ??

Kingsly
                .:: Kingsly John                ICQ 14787510 ::.
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            .:: Linux 2.4.3 #2 Sun Apr 1 00:02:27 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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           `:. Posted to the list on Sun Apr  8 11:35:58 IST 2001 .:'


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