On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:46:25AM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: [...] > A problem I have encountered is that my harddiscs are not in UDMA mode > after boot up. Ok I can set them with hdparms every time and could also > put that in a boot script, but there should be better way as most drives > are now UDMA and things like sound or video output is really bad without > it and of cause copying takes lifetime without it.
I don't think it's such a bad thing to do to put one or more hdparm commands into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh for instance. > > I have played around with module parameters, but without success. So, > can someone describe exactly what I have to do? > Have a look at Documentation/ide.txt in the kernel-source tree. "idex=dma" might do what you want. You shold be able to use it both as a kernel parameter and a module option. Greetinx xio -- GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2FF 6147 0ADB 1674 4096 2339 370F CBDF 0FCD 0EE2 fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. -- Lord Thomas Rober Dewar