Re: funny idle time from time
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Brian May wrote:
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> Unfortunately, this system already has DMA enabled by default:
Then switch it off. Put
hdparm -d0 /dev/hdx
in some initscript, and it'll be off.
I've had to do something similar to be able to read my CD-ROM while
accessing the harddisk without read-errors. Unfortunately, not all
hardware is error-free...
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