Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:48:26 -0400 | | From | mlord <> | | Subject | Re: Why no DMA?? |
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Neal Becker wrote: > > I'm puzzled as to why DMA is not being enbabled on my IDE drive. > The motherboard is Triton II. The drive supports mode 4.
The drive/BIOS probably is defaulting to mode0. Linux sees this, assumes you may have done it for a reason, and leaves it alone, and does not use DMA on that drive by default.
Feel free to turn it on yourself with:
hdparm -X34 -d1 /dev/hd?
-ml
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