On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:46:46AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chip Rose wrote: > > Another thing you might want to check is if your hard drive needs dma > turned on. What speed does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" give you?
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 18.06 seconds = 3.54 MB/sec
do i need to turn dma on?
> Most of the
> debian kernels don't have dma turned on and will give very poor perfomance
> with data transfers, starting programs, etc. Windows turns dma on by
> defualt.
and how do i turn it on? once turned on, will it always remain turned on or will i
have to turn on?
thanx
sandip p deshmukh
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