Re: DMA?

["Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU>]

Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> I thought that myself, but got curious, why the #debian.de FAQ told me
> that "it could be possible that the BIOS activated the UDMA-mode already
> (marked with *). You don't have to do anything in this case. If not you
> have to enable it using hdparm afterwards." 

Well, there's a kernel option to automatically enable DMA if it's 
detected, at least in 2.4.18.  I don't recall exactly where, and alas, I 
can't access my box from here :-/.  But I compiled the kernel to support 
my motherboard's chipset, enabled the option in the kernel to 
automatically enable DMA if detected, and now it detects and enables it 
when I boot :)

--
Kevin





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