"jah" == jah pigeon writes:
jah> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:23:03PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad
jah> wrote:
>> If you are using one of the pre-packaged 2.4.x kernels from
>> Debian then it will be modular. During boot you will see a
>> "Calculating module dependencies" messa
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:27:58PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021127 09:46]:
> > On Wed 27 Nov 2002 04:13:08 +(+), Pigeon wrote:
> >
> > 4:13am! Is Pigeon really an owl?
> >
> > > Try ide0=ata66 (for UDMA66; change as appropriate)
> > >
> > > Wo
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:23:03PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> If you are using one of the pre-packaged 2.4.x kernels from Debian
> then it will be modular. During boot you will see a "Calculating
> module dependencies" message followed by much disk whirring. For
> me, this is the single slo
On Sun 1 Dec 2002 19:23:03 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>
> >> Is most of the time spent building module dependencies?
>
> Clive> How would I measure that?
>
> If you are using one of the pre-packaged 2.4.x kernels from Debian
> then it will be modular. During boot you will see a
At 09:25 PM 12/01/02 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
>> > I've used the -k "keep" switch do htparm to remember DMA settings.
>>
>> I've tried that but the settings don't survive a reboot.
>
>Uh, they're not supposed to. That flag is "keep_over_reset", which means
>that if the kernel has to reset the d
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:31:41AM +, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> On Thu 28 Nov 2002 07:46:49 +(-0800), Bill Moseley wrote:
> >
> > I've used the -k "keep" switch do htparm to remember DMA settings.
>
> I've tried that but the settings don't survive a reboot.
Uh, they're not supposed to.
* Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021127 09:46]:
> On Wed 27 Nov 2002 04:13:08 +(+), Pigeon wrote:
>
> 4:13am! Is Pigeon really an owl?
>
> > Try ide0=ata66 (for UDMA66; change as appropriate)
> >
> > Works for me.
>
> I tried both ide0=ata66 and ide0=ata100 but neither worked. T
"Clive" == Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Clive> On Thu 28 Nov 2002 22:45:39 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad
Clive> wrote:
>> H...that is a truly interesting measure. Since I rarely
>> boot my machine I've never looked at DMA as a way of speeding
>> up the
On Thu 28 Nov 2002 22:45:39 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>
> H...that is a truly interesting measure. Since I rarely boot my
> machine I've never looked at DMA as a way of speeding up the boot
> sequence. Cool. I feel like I've learned a whole new view of things :-)
I'm not sure whethe
On Thu 28 Nov 2002 07:46:49 +(-0800), Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> I've used the -k "keep" switch do htparm to remember DMA settings.
I've tried that but the settings don't survive a reboot.
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On Fri 29 Nov 2002 18:22:34 +(+1100), Rob Weir wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:43:57PM +, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> > Is there a way to prod the kernel into reporting whether its
> > parameters are accepted as valid? I ask because I also tried feeding
> > it some nonsense parameters
[Ach, please wrap your lines!]
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:43:57PM +, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> Is there a way to prod the kernel into reporting whether its
> parameters are accepted as valid? I ask because I also tried feeding
> it some nonsense parameters and it didn't complain in any obviou
"Clive" == Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Clive> On Wed 27 Nov 2002 14:09:12 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad
Clive> wrote:
>> Personally, I use a script. I installed the hwtools package and
>> edited /etc/init.d/hwtools to do the right hdparm commands.
Clive> O
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> On Wed 27 Nov 2002 14:09:12 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>
> > Personally, I use a script. I installed the hwtools package and edited
> > /etc/init.d/hwtools to do the right hdparm commands.
I've used the -k "keep" switch do htparm to rememb
On Wed 27 Nov 2002 14:09:12 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Personally, I use a script. I installed the hwtools package and edited
> /etc/init.d/hwtools to do the right hdparm commands.
Okay, that approach works for me. It's also cut my boot time (LILO prompt to GDM
prompt) from 83s to 72s
"Clive" == Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Clive> Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully
Clive> used hdparm to enable DMA and to measure its improvement on
Clive> my IDE hard disk. Now I want to enable DMA at boot
Clive> time. According to the
On Wed 27 Nov 2002 04:13:08 +(+), Pigeon wrote:
4:13am! Is Pigeon really an owl?
> Try ide0=ata66 (for UDMA66; change as appropriate)
>
> Works for me.
I tried both ide0=ata66 and ide0=ata100 but neither worked. The parameters went onto
the kernel command line reported by dmesg and ker
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:41:22 +, Clive Standbridge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully
>used hdparm to enable DMA and to measure its improvement
>on my IDE hard disk.
>
>Now I want to enable DMA at boot time. According to the
>kernel docs (ide
> -Original Message-
> From: Clive Standbridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How to enable DMA at boot time
>
>
> Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully used
>
Following the tips in another thread, I have successfully used hdparm to enable DMA
and to measure its improvement on my IDE hard disk.
Now I want to enable DMA at boot time. According to the kernel docs (ide.txt.gz and
kernel-parameters.txt.gz) I should be able to do this with the kernel parame
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