Another way to enable DMA is to include this instead of the hdparm line:

echo "using_dma:1" > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings

If hda is your drive.

Just do a "cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings" if you have a machine with a 
/dev/hda disk, to see what's in there.

regards,

Gerben Roest.

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06-07-2004 15:29:12:

> I put the /sbin/hdparm command in the master script (with a
> "sleep" command to be able to see what's going on).  Turns out
> that the image *doesn't include* the hdparm command (this
> is SystemImager 3.3 taken from CVS).  What is the correct way
> to add hdparm to the SystemImager installation ?
> 
> Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> >    I usally to this in my master script:
> > 
> >    # RB: we need this to enable DMA mode
> >    echo "Loading ide chipset modules.."
> >    modprobe amd74xx
> >    modprobe via82cxxx
> > 
> >    # BvdV: speed up the hardisk
> >    #
> >    # Setting harddisk speed to maximum!
> >    /sbin/hdparm -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda
> 
> Ole Holm Nielsen
> Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark
> 
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