Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Anderson wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> On my Toshiba P35 laptop, opensuse 10.2, *nothing* is shown in Yast IDE
>> DMA Setup. Is this normal???
>>
>>   
> It might not be enabled, try the command hdparm -d /dev/hda to check if
> it is enabled (you need to be root to run this command). If it is not,
> you can enable it with the command hdparm -d1 to enable it. The man page
> gives more information on the command. Also, it wouldn't hurt to check
> the BIOS settings.
> 
> Bill Anderson
> WW7BA

All looks good there. I wonder why Yast doesn't see it?

[root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # hdparm -d /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)


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