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From: "H du Plooy"
On Sun, 4 May 2003 01:56:04 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R."
wrote: ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available [*] Enable DMA only for disks
Thanks Carlos, I knew about this, but I was hoping there's a way without recompiling.
As for a boot parameter, yes:
ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : config (iomem/irq), tuning or debugging (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or chipset specific parameters.
But I think it is for the bus. not the device.
Thanks, I'll give this a try. A boot parameter would be good, as it would seriously speed up installs.
In suse 8.1, just edit "/etc/sysconfig/hardware" like this:
DEVICES_FORCE_IDE_DMA_ON="hdc hdd"
And they will be set on for you.
Thanks, this would help. I'm surprised that Yast2 doesn't show the relevant /dev/hdx devices so one can do it from there.
Go into yast2-->Hardware-->IDE DMA Mode You can make the changes there. Ken
Thanks again Hans