Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[The Purple Tiger <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Rob,

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, dizzy73 wrote:
> Thanks for the reply
Thats not a problem =o) I like to help where I can.

> 1 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          235 Mar 31 19:23 /etc/rc.config.d/idedma.rc.config
>
> what is this idedma???
ideDMA is a program that enables DMA for harddisks.  Basically, DMA allows
Direct Memory Access for harddisks and frees up the processor.  I am not
sure entirely [I haven't read up on it for a while!] but it is generally A
Good Thing (TM) to enable it.


Okay, log in [Well, su] to root, and do the following:

chmod 744 /etc/rc.d/idedma

This makes the script "executable" [runnable] by the owner [root]
And:

ls -ls /etc/rc.d/idedma

after doing the chmod line, should result in something similar to the
following:
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root         2856 Aug  6  2000 /etc/rc.d/idedma
^^^^
Please note the "x" here.  This means "eXecutable".  The others are
"Readable" and "Writable".
Hope this helps you!

Jon

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