Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-27 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:11:18PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. The hwtools package includes a script with a placeholder for such hdparm tuning in /etc/init.d/hwtools: #

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Ian Eure
On Monday 26 August 2002 12:45 pm, Nate Eldredge wrote: > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won't work until you have loaded the > ide-scsi module, per

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:45:54PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel command line, though I > > ha

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread tomas p
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > Thoughts? Propose a patch against the hdparm package?

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On 26 Aug 2002, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Il lun, 2002-08-26 alle 21:45, Nate Eldredge ha scritto: > > > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel com

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il lun, 2002-08-26 alle 21:45, Nate Eldredge ha scritto: > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won't work until you have loaded the > ide-scsi module, p

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel command line, though I > haven't tested this yet. Appa

Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
I just noticed that IDE DMA is not enabled by default in woody, nor in the kernel-image package (at least for 2.4.18 and I assume for the others also). I can understand this, since there are some systems for which enabling IDE results in hideous corruption. But for others it gives you a a huge in