On Friday 12 March 2004 01:39 pm, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
Even better, use yast to have it make the change on the next reboot.
Switching/forcing a HD from no-DMA to DMA *while data is being written to it* ,which given that the drive is hda and therefore liekly holds both / and swap is 100% likely to eb the case, will result at best in data loss, will result most likely in a crash and can result in a completely corrupted filesystem.
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Using yest you tell the system to switch to hda mode on the next reboot. and it does that when the drivbe is staill in readonly mode.
if that hardhangs your machine (because your IDE controller is not properly supported) you can boot from rescue CD to installed system, and unset it again, with no more lost then 15 minutes and a few grey hairs
Gerhard,
== The Acoustic Motorbiker ==
Better option. Forgot about this. But I don't think it existed under SUSE 8.1. It is in 8.2 and even better in 9.0. Our OP is using SUSE 8.1... Even better under the newer YaST is the ability to see what level of DMA support each device provides. Under the list of IDE DMA devices there is a scroller that lists everything from No Change, DMA Off, DMA On (Default Mode), DMA/16 through UltraDMA/100 and probably higher but thats all my system will do. Works like a charm. Stan