[techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Wed May 23 08:55:21 EST 2001


On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:36:23AM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Penguina thought:
> 
> WOW THANKS!
> 
> I just recompiled my 2.4.0 kernel with generic dma support
> for the IDE driver on my laptop, and it more than quadrupled my
> disk reads.  (We'll see how it handles disk *writes* from my DV
> camera now...)
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Cheryl

Sure thing, glad to help.  Now I just gotta go install 2.4 in place of the
2.2.16 that's currently running.  RH7.1 time?

Conor
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