Re: What's going on with my IDE devices ?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:06:30 +0100

In alt.os.linux Jay <jay@free.fr>:
> Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In alt.os.linux Jay <jay@free.fr>:
[..]

>>>I've had that problem for some months now :
>>>DMA on my hda is always turned off at boot and I have to do
>>>sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda every time to turn it on again.
>>>Here's the output I get in /var/log/syslog
[..]

> Thanks for your reply but why is DMA disabled on my hda and not on my
> hdb ? That's what I can't understand !

It's usually switched on from your system during boot from
rc.sysinit (rh and alike), which looks at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks
for configured settings. Check your distro documentation for
info. 

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