active DMA on boot "DVD/CDROM"

Kreg Schlosser liberaltugboat at gmail.com
Fri May 20 06:01:31 UTC 2005


That error comes because "/dev/hdc" has not been made yet at that
point in the boot process, just ignore it because DMA should be
working!

On 5/19/05, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY <zamb at saudi.net.sa> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 20:27 +0300, foinux wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i put this on hdparm.conf "command_line {
> >         hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
> > }
> > "
> > but on boot procsser i see this message "/dev/hdc : no such file or
> > directory "
> >
> > what should i do than ?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Is DMA working for you (despite the error message)?  If yes, just ignore
> the message.
> 
> In my system the same error message appears, but DMA *is* activated on
> my device (by default, it's off.  I had to edit "hdparm.conf" just like
> you to enable it).
> 
> run "sudo hdparm /dev/hdc" and see if DMA is enabled or not.
> 
> Ziyad.
> 
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