hdparm.conf

[John Nilsson]

On tor, 2005-07-28 at 21:15 +0800, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:48:38PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
> > I don't know if Gentoo perfoms som extra magic while booting but when I
> > had I didn't need to run the hdparm script while booting. Every thing
> > was configured automaticly. Does ubuntu explcitly turn off features if
> > not told otherwise?
> 
> Ubuntu kernels were built with the compile-time option
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK checked. So, DMA is not enabled for IDE CDROMs.

I didn't get DMA for the disk either. This is what I had to ebable:


/dev/hda {
        mult_sect_io = 16
        interrupt_unmask = on
        dma = on
}

/dev/hdc {
        dma = on
}



/John