RE: How to enable DMA at boot time
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clive Standbridge [mailto:nobody@i.love.spam]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:41 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: How to enable DMA at boot time
>
>
> Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully used
> hdparm to enable DMA and to measure its improvement on my IDE hard disk.
>
> Now I want to enable DMA at boot time. According to the kernel
> docs (ide.txt.gz and kernel-parameters.txt.gz) I should be able
> to do this with the kernel parameter ide0=dma, but it doesn't
> work. Am I doing something wrong, or is this not supported? If
> not, should I enable DMA with an hdparm command in an init
> script, or do something else?
>
> I'm using kernel 2.4.18-k7 in Woody.
> Motherboard: Micro-Star K7T Pro2-A (MS-6330)
> Disk: Maxtor DiamondMax UDMA100.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Clive
I am curious to know what other folks did but I started mine as a script,
immediately after the fsck check. It seems like a bad idea to enable
(possibly risky) DMA stuff before you've gone through a necessary fscking. I
also set it up so it obeys standard init.d script style, so start enables
DMA and stop disables it.
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