Re: HELP: can't boot into woody due to HD problem
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:04:51PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
> >>>>> "PS" == Philipp Schulte <philipp.schulte@arcormail.de> writes:
> PS> Did you test the partition with #badblocks ? Try turning DMA
> PS> off for the check.
> PS>
>
> No, I am about to now. How do I turn off DMA for the check ? There
> doesn't seem to be an option to badblocks to do that.
Turn it off by #hdparm -d0 /dev/hda or turn DMA off completely in the BIOS.
See #man hdparm for details
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