On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:15:20 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there any way to enable DMA on an external USB drive? hdparm -d won't work. If DMA can't be enabled, are there any similar methods for tuning that would allow the same type of performance increase?
No, USB disk drives all go thru USB host controller DMA. It's not an interface option like it is for IDE/ATA. Performance depends on USB host controller version, type, and kernel version, which you haven't mentioned.... -- ~Randy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
