[debian-knoppix] DMA
Dear All,
I notice that when Knoppix is booting, one of the messages flashed to
screen says:
Warning: The DMA process on your hard disk is turned off.
This may really slow down the fsck process.
The strange thing is that dma is enabled on my machine. I can check it
like this:
root@sonic:~# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0
Knoppix boots fast on my machine - in fact, it boots faster than most
other Linux distros. Yet the other distros I've tried don't warn me that
I have dma turned off. If there is something I can do to make Knoppix
boot even faster, that would be really nice.
I'm not sure this is a problem, but I'm curious why I see this message.
Any ideas?
best regards,
Robert
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