Re: Turn on DMA on boot

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Dan Collis Puro wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot.
> All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by
> Debian, slowly but surely.
> 
> Anyway:  What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA (essentially
> run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could (probably) add something in
> /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems dirty.

Install the hwtools package. It contains an initscript that you can adapt to
your needs (/etc/init.d/hwtools).

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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