"Dan" == Dan Collis Puro <dpuro@mindspring.com> writes: Dan> Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA Dan> (essentially run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could Dan> (probably) add something in /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems Dan> dirty. The commonly accepted "Debian way" seems to be # apt-get install hwtools # vi /etc/init.d/hwtools Cheers! Shyamal