Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

["H du Plooy" <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 May 2003 01:56:04 +0200 (CEST)
 "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support  --->
>     IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices  --->
>       [*]       Use PCI DMA by default when available
>       [*]     Enable DMA only for disks

Thanks Carlos, I knew about this, but I was hoping there's
a way without recompiling.

> As for a boot parameter, yes:
> 
>      ide?=         [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : config
> (iomem/irq), tuning or
>                    debugging
> (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or
>                    chipset specific parameters.
> 
> But I think it is for the bus. not the device.

Thanks, I'll give this a try.  A boot parameter would be
good, as it would seriously speed up installs.

> In suse 8.1, just edit "/etc/sysconfig/hardware" like
> this:
> 
> 	DEVICES_FORCE_IDE_DMA_ON="hdc hdd"
> 
> And they will be set on for you.

Thanks, this would help.  I'm surprised that Yast2 doesn't
show the relevant /dev/hdx devices so one can do it from
there.

Thanks again
Hans
 
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