On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:40:18 +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem disabling IDE DMA. I am trying to install Debian Sarge
> in to an old laptop and with DMA enabled (default) I keep getting DMA
> timeouts and retries from /dev/hda. The kernel image is 2.4.23-1-386
> (2.4.23-1).
>
You could turn it off with hdparm. If the file /etc/init.d/hdparm exists
on your system then you can edit /etc/hdparm.conf to have the script
change drive parameters. If not, then you can put a script in /etc/init.d
and link it into /etc/rcS.d (by hand or by using update-rc.d)
References:
man hdparm
Debian Policy Manual section 9.3
man update-rc.d
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