29 Oct
2002
29 Oct
'02
12:57
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 13.54, John Pettigrew wrote:
Are you referring to the "hdc: DMA" above? Don't believe it. Check for yourself with hdparm.
OK - what flags do I need? The man page makes it looks a dangerous command to fiddle with when I've got no knowledge!
/sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc will give you the current status of the drive. If dma is off, use /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc to turn it on. Anders