Constant Brouerius van Nidek
From my instalation with version 7.2 I know that from my 3 harddrives the hda does not like to have DMA put on. In 7.2 I could choose to not include hda. In 7.3 I heard that DMA is automatically put on. I can of course start with the failsafe possibility but would like to have DMA working on hdc and hdd (hdb is my cdrom).
You can disable the autodma feature of the kernel by the "ide=nodma" kernel option (see how it's done for the vmlinuz.suse kernel in /etc/lilo.conf), and enable DMA for hdc and hdd in a startup script, e.g. /etc/init.d/boot.local, by "/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdd". Another alternative is to put these commands into the beginning of /etc/init.d/boot. In this case, fsck (which may take long time) would use these DMA settings. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se