DMA

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 10:27:14 +0100
Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:17 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:48:04AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > 
> > > As far as I can see, DMA isn't enabled on my SATA drive.
> > 
> > DMA is always enabled on SATA, but isn't set up in the same way as DMA 
> > on PATA - as a result, hdparm will give incorrect results.
> 
> Damn, no one ever gets my jokes... That ought to tell me something, I
> guess.

I like custard too - unfortunately I was unable to take advantage of
Scott's generous offer, as I do not own a SATA drive ;-)

I did feel I needed to put my hand up as appreciating your joke, if only to
redeem the Garrett name  ;-)

[ Apologies,  Matthew  ;-) ]

Peter Garrett

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