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Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA



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:

# hdparm optimization
# Switches on interrupts during transfers and does multi sector transfers
if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
#   hdparm -q [PUT ARGS HERE]
   true
fi

Chris

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