Re: HD Parameters
David Findlay@lists.debian-devel@Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:05:26 +1000:
> Would it be possible for debian to detect the correct hard drive parameters
> during install and set things like DMA on by default if the hard drive
> supports it?
>
A: AFAIK the Linux kernel does this already.
B: I always disable this because I know a lot of drives which just
can*not* handle DMA and instead they just crash the system.
C: My CD-writer can't write CD's when DMA's enabled, DMA makes the thing
read-only.
It would be nice though if there was a Debian way to do hdparm settings
at boottime, I don't like creating my own files in /etc/rcS.d/..
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