low breezy hard disk performances

[The Saltydog]

On 9/9/05, pressureman <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> Some of the recent kernels in the Debian repositories (2.6.11, 2.6.12)
> have initrd images that load a generic IDE module before the Intel PIIX
> module, resulting in DMA being off even on Intel chipsets. Since the
> generic module is already loaded, the PIIX module doesn't, and since
> the generic module doesn't support DMA, you can't enable it later with
> hdparm (operation not permitted).

It cannot be, as dma is correctly enabled in hdparm.

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 40020664320, start = 0