dma and older hard disks

[Roman Kirillov]

On 7/19/06, gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen <
gabpaul at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:01:22 +1000, Roman Kirillov <sigizmund at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 7/19/06, Nigel Ridley <nigel at i-amfaithweb.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm sending this again as it didn't seem to get thru the first time.
> >>
> >> I have just put together an AMD K6 500 using two older small hard disks
> >> - one 3.5 GB and the other 2.5 GB. They are about 6-7 years old.
> >> after doing the initial install, then the upgrade (including KDE 3.5.3)
> >> I rebooted and noticed in the boot messages a warning that dma is not
> >> enabled and that accessing the hard drive[s] might be slow (or
> something
> >> like that). YES, they are slooooow.
> >
> >
> > Hi Nigel,
> >
> > Can you provide us with these HDDs models, etc? I think it's pretty safe
> > to
> > enable DMA, 'coz for 2G+ models UDMA33 already worked, almost for each
> > one.
> > So you can try.
> >
> > Roman
>
> My first thought was to look up the specs for the HDD in question...
>
> other things to check is BIOS IDE settings.
>
> you can also manually set the dma mode - though for the life of me I can't
> recall how off the top of my head...
> Oh. Now I know... atacontrol on FreeBSD... forget I said anything... :-)
>
> still, if it is possible in one versuation of unix it should theoretically
> be possible in all ;-) right? *BG*
>
> that reminds me - is there a inverse man page list somewhere?
> perhapos this needs a new email... pardon me...


Mate, may be this will help you:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=30949

BTW google is our friend :-)
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