Basil Chupin wrote:
supposed to. If the setting does not survive a reboot, your BIOS is resetting it. But you also said FORCE_DMA is not working - which is probably worth reporting as hdparm is ok.
The setting survives reboots so it is now OK.
The FORCE_DMA didn't work as per my original post and since receiving the advice from you, Silviu and Carlos, and fiddling with different settings, I have found that doing anything in /etc/sysconfig/ide does NOT work.
/etc/sysconfig/ide will set the variable DEVICES_FORCE_IDE_DMA, which in 10.0 was used by the boot.idedma init-script. This functionality has been moved to a udev script. It seems to have happened in 10.1, probably as a result of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=117683
What am I comparing the results to? Firstly, both HDs are identical.
Yes, but that is a matter of specifications, not current settings. Of course, if YaST shows a drive set to an unsupported DMA-mode, something isn't quite right :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich