[newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Richard Gelling
/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda put that line in rc.local file to make it permanent Richard G. At 15:39 21/01/2003 +, you wrote: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda Attached is my notes on hdparm, mostly supplied by Technoslick. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 21 Gener 2003 16:39, en John Richard Smith va escriure: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John Install hdparm, then edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 21 Gener 2003 16:39, en John Richard Smith va escriure: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John Install hdparm, then edit

SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-19 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
How do you know that the speed is increased? I have been having problems where I have test it with hdparm -tT /deb/hda when I use the -d1 option by itself, the next disk access locks things up. I I have test the -X69 and -X68 as well, but the big performens increasing is with -d1. From

Re: SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-19 Thread civileme
On Friday 19 January 2001 09:43, you wrote: How do you know that the speed is increased? I have been having problems where I have test it with hdparm -tT /deb/hda when I use the -d1 option by itself, the next disk access locks things up. I I have test the -X69 and -X68 as well, but

Re: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 18 January 2001 01:27 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: When I turn on the UDMA the speed is increasing a lot, but I can't start any program. The Icons on the destop is removed when I click on the and the panel is gone when I click on that one... What does "turn on the UDMA" mean ?

SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? That is correct, when I'm turns this on, the system become unstable and do strange things... What does 'hdparm -v /dev/hd*' say? Multcount = 16 on I/O Support = O unmaskirg = 0 using_dma = 0 keepsettings = 0 nowerr = 0

Re: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread jason-snyder
How do you know that the speed is increased? I have been having problems where when I use the -d1 option by itself, the next disk access locks things up. I get around this by explicitly setting the x-fer rate (-X66 for Ultra33, -X68 for Ultra66, and -X69 for Ultra100.) "Blomquist, Niklas"

Re: SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Does your hard drive actually support DMA? If it doesn't you could damage your data (and possibly the drive itself) by having it turned on. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:56, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? That is correct, when I'm turns this