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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,06:44 QUOTE
how do i enable dma on my hard drive, i just did a damn small linux install on my hard drive, and i want to enable dma so it will go faster
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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,07:34 QUOTE
cameron20020-
I think it's still the case that you
can enter "dsl dma" at boot time
to enable dma on your drives-
hitting F2 will show all the boot options.
Or the hdparm command can be used,
but off the top of my head I can't
remember the details of the switches.
Use with caution,it is safer to use the
boot option.
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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,07:40 QUOTE
aah,sorry,just realised we're
in hdinstall,search net for manpage
of hdparm,your command will be
something like hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hda
check out the manpage first.
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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,18:07 QUOTE
Keeping in mind that hdparm should be run as user "root":

sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

for example.
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Posted: Aug. 17 2004,10:31 QUOTE
i tried it, my hdd is meant to be compatible with dma1 dma2 udma1 udma2, however when i type in
sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda1
it says HDIO_SEYT_DMA failed:invalid argument
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