Re: got dma working with hdpram

[jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net>]

On Sunday 11 May 2003 11:27, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>     "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

thanks that helps a lot!!

Jeremy