Does your hard drive actually support DMA? If it doesn't you could damage
your data (and possibly the drive itself) by having it turned on.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:56, Blomquist, Niklas wrote:
> > I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ?
>
> That is correct, when I'm turns this on, the system become unstable and do
> strange things...
>
> > What does 'hdparm -v /dev/hd*' say?
>
> Multcount = 16 on
> I/O Support = O
> unmaskirg = 0
> using_dma = 0
> keepsettings = 0
> nowerr = 0
> readonly = 0
> readahead = 8
>
> This is before I change anything.
>
> I can tweek it a little like:
>
> hdparm -X66 -u1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda
>
> But I only get 9Mbs, when i turn on the -d1, i get 35, but I can't use the
> computer...
>
> /N
>
> > --
> > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
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