On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:25:20PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> [snip steve]
> > > hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, DMA
> > > hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
> > >
> > > So, the kernel believes that the drives are still DMA-capable at boottime
> > > despite the BIOS switch.
>
> Sorry steve for refrence.. my cdrom doesn't go into DMA mode
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 92048U8, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CD-R CDU928E, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> hdparm of hda is same, i did just notice your cd is on hdd. why for?
Because I gain almost 3M/sec transfer speed by not having slow devices on
the hard drive cable.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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