Give your comments on How to enable hdparm to enable high speed dma access here. Thanks in advance!
- (Ian Wells 25th May 2004)
Is this needed on 6.x? My machines appear to have dma on by default.
- (brian read on 14th Sept 2004)
I am finding that DMA isn't on, on the Asrock Mb I am currently using with 6.0.1.
Also the "hdparm" key does not appear to exist in the db.
what type should I create it as?
- (RonM - 15Sep2004)
Mine are on by default as well, on a new install:
/dev/hda:
using_dma = 1 (on)
[root@rocinante root]# hdparm -d /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
using_dma = 1 (on)
[root@rocinante root]# hdparm -h
hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters - version v4.6
Usage: hdparm [options] [device] ..
~
Options:
-a (too many options to list...)
looks like a regular xNIX utility
[root@rocinante root]# updatedb
[root@rocinante root]# locate hdparm
/usr/share/doc/hdparm-4.6
/usr/share/doc/hdparm-4.6/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/hdparm-4.6/hdparm.lsm
/usr/share/man/man8/hdparm.8.gz
/sbin/hdparm
If for some reason it isn't there, freshmeat and www.linux.org have links to it.