Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Bill Wisse <wiswp@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 30 August 2003 21:39, del wrote:
> On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 04:43, Bill Wisse wrote:
> > hda: ST340824A, ATA DISK drive
> > blk: queue c03ac500, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> > hdc: ASUS DVD-ROM E616, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>
> This is a very similar setup to one of mine, although I've also got hdb
> which matches hda. They are also Maxtor drives and the DVD is the same
> as this one, but I've got a Memorex CD-RW on hdd.
> Yast will set this up so that DMA for hda is on. However, I don't think
> that having DMA on/off isn't going to make much difference unless  you
> also have the 40 pin, 80 wire IDE cable on hda ( assuming you want UDMA
> 66/100/133 ).
>
> Are you sure that the BIOS has DMA enabled for hda and hdc?-

No , actually I'm not. I went to the BIOS but couldn't find it.


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