On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Bart wrote:
> ...
> btw does anyone know why redhat and mandrake stopped enabling dma by
> default with their 6.1 release? andre?
Probably because it breaks some motherboards. Mandrake's install has
a section where you can choose to "optimize" the hard drive, which
presumably is accomplished with hdparm commands somewhere in the boot
process. It's pretty cheesy that they don't tell you what the option
does (shades of M$).
-- Rod
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