[Hoary] DMA still not on by default. Hardware DB, Can I help?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Jon Dixon wrote:

> There is a workaround to the dma issue that works for my laptop on hoary.
> 
> $ sudo update-rc.d -f hdparm remove
> 
> $ sudo update-rc.d hdparm start 50 S . stop 75 0 6 .
> 
> See if it works for you.

That's a different issue, and the workaround is no longer necessary since
hdparm 5.8-1ubuntu3.

It shouldn't be necessary to use hdparm at all; DMA should be automatically
enabled where it works.  That is the bit which will require time and data
collection.

-- 
 - mdz