>On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> Do you know it the later kernels (later than 2.2.13-7) support
>> dma transfers by default? I know the 2.2.13-7 does not.
>> Just interested.
>>
>> Larry
>
> I remember seeing it in some of them Larry, but I don't
>remember which ones or if it actually worked. I have this line at
>the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local to enable, among other things, dma:
> hdparm -m4 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a64 /dev/hdb
>
> The 'd' switch enables dma. 'info hdparm' has good explainations
>for the various switches, specially for WD HDD's.
>--
>.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>
Tom, thanks for that info. I wasn't aware of what file to change to make
it permanent. I had previously done it manually and used the k1 switch
to make it permanent (which didn't work) so I recompiled the kernel.
But I needed to do that anyway for sound card reasons.
Larry
