On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 02:16:17PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > My first guess is you did not enable DMA on your drive. You can check > this with hdparm. For example, if your drive is /dev/hda then type > 'hdparm /dev/hda' and see if you get a line saying 'using_dma = 1 > (on)'. If you see it off, turn it on with 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' and > see if the problem goes away. > > If the DMA setting does fix your problem you need to turn it on during > boot up. The simples way might be to install the hwtools package > (apt-get install hwtools) and then edit the file > /etc/init.d/hwtools. You will see where to uncomment/add the hdparm > commands easily. Thanks to Shyamal and Deryk, it is just this problem. I have thought DMA is on by default, but it doesn't. -- Zeng Nan Simple is Beautiful.
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