On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Altogether I realized that the whole thing is related to some
> optimization code in the install-scripts.
> But regard this: Every (optimizable) software I encountered
> during my 12 yrs of computer-life installed with default (secure
> but slow) settings.
That's just what we intended to do.
hdparm -c1 -A1 -m16 -d1
doesn't have any settings that should be causing problems; disks that
don't support DMA should detect this and ignore the command to activate
DMA transfer modes. I've tested this on an old 486SX and it worked. We've
tested it on several different machines without problems. When we were in
pre-release, nobody reported a problem.
After the 6.0 release, some people started reporting problems with this
(and it does occur only on certain kinds of IDE chipsets). We'll make the
optimizations optional in the next release (should be available soon).
LLaP
bero
