[opensuse] SATA Drive and DMA

I have not yet found an answer, does setting DMA for SATA drives have any effect? Is it even possible? Does SATA not use DMA? I am curious. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] SATA Drive and DMA

* John Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-11-07 04:43]: I have not yet found an answer, does setting DMA for SATA drives have any effect? Is it even possible? Does SATA not use DMA? I find: :~ hdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate

Re: [opensuse] SATA Drive and DMA

On 4/11/07, John Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not yet found an answer, does setting DMA for SATA drives have any effect? Is it even possible? Does SATA not use DMA? I am curious. In general SATA controllers absolutely use DMA and only fail back to the much slower PIO mode if there