Re: got dma working with hdpram

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Jeremy" == Jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net> writes:

    Jeremy> but 2 questions, 1) how to I retain the settings between
    Jeremy> boots 

If you got DMA turned on with hdparm the way to do it at boot is to
put the command in a file in /etc/init.d/ and create links in
/etc/rc2.d/ and so on (rc2.d for run level 2, rc3.d for run level 3). 

The simplest way to do this, IMHO, is to install the hwtools
package. This will give you /etc/init.d/hwtools which you can edit to
add the hdparm commands. They are already in the file but commented
out. The package will also give you all the symlinks from the other
run levels.

Cheers!
Shyamal