Re: hdparm

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:55:25AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >>proposed silly placeholder file.  What ever way we impliment, default
> >>shall be "off" unless someopne write very smart auto detector.
> >
> >The default should be "don't touch this", as the kernel and BIOS _are_ your
> >auto detector.
> 
> Huh? Xu's kernels disable dma unconditionally.

Xu's 2.4 kernel series are damn useless as configured by him IMHO. I liked
the 2.2 series, but I have to freaking rebuild the kernel for *every* new
Debian machine, server or desktop I happen to install.

And you are NOT to enable DMA on a kernel that has not been setup for that,
it might screw up data (this advice comes directly from Andre Hedrick).

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh