Re: Limiting DMA speeds for individual IDE drives

[Frederik Deweerdt]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:03:48PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Is there any simple way to force the old IDE driver to limit the DMA
> speed for a particular device?
> 
> I've got a situation where a drive claims to be capable of supporting
> UDMA/100, but it's in a noisy environment and gets lots of errors at
> that speed.  I'd like to limit it to UDMA/66 or even UDMA/33.
> 
> The hdparm command should be able to do this but I can't run it until 
> the system has booted, by which time a bunch of CRC and possibly other 
> errors have already occurred.  Ideally it should be possible to limit 
> the speed starting as early as device detection, but I can't find any 
> way to do it.  Is there support for such a thing or will I have to hack 
> it in?
Does passing ide=nodma at bootime, and then having init set the DMA at
the right speed, would work?

Regards,
Frederik
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