[Techtalk] Turning on DMA

[Dave North]

Phil:
> 2.  What config files would have to be changed to allow dma to be on by
> default?

I don't know what other methods might be reasonable, but you can check and
change the status of dma with hdparm. If it is not in fact on by default,
this can be a kernel config issue (at least, changing kernels has shown
different dma behaviors on my boxen) or you can just set the appropriate
flag in a startup script.

d