Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Clive" == Clive Standbridge <nobody@i.love.spam> writes:

    Clive> Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully
    Clive> used hdparm to enable DMA and to measure its improvement on
    Clive> my IDE hard disk.  Now I want to enable DMA at boot
    Clive> time. According to the kernel docs (ide.txt.gz and
    Clive> kernel-parameters.txt.gz) I should be able to do this with
    Clive> the kernel parameter ide0=dma, but it doesn't work. Am I
    Clive> doing something wrong, or is this not supported? If not,
    Clive> should I enable DMA with an hdparm command in an init
    Clive> script, or do something else?

Personally, I use a script. I installed the hwtools package and edited
/etc/init.d/hwtools to do the right hdparm commands.

Cheers!
Shyamal