"James" == James William Morris <sirrom75@hotmail.com> writes:
James> http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/ (redhat
James> dma problem)
James> there it says to permanently disable DMA for a particular
James> drive by adding the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
James> /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb
You can create your own script in /etc/init.d/ and create the
appropriate links (man update-rc.d) if you want to.
Personally I would recommend 'apt-get hwtools' and then edit
/etc/init.d/hwtools to add the hdparm commands you wish. The default
version of the file installed has a place for exactly this stuff.
Look over
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit
for details if you really want to write your own script.
Cheers!
Shyamal