active DMA on boot "DVD/CDROM"

paul marwick paul.marwick at virgin.net
Fri May 20 15:19:15 UTC 2005


In article <1116523671.27976.0.camel at localhost.localdomain>,
foinux <foinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ?

I got the same error on my laptop. It seems that the command was coming
too early in the boot sequence. To correct it I went to /etc/rcS.d and
did the following:

sudo mv S07hdparm S50hdparm

That moves hdparm processing to much later in boot and I then get the
settings for hdc that I want.

paul.

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