Re: UltraDMA

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:54:16 -0500


Jokker Wyyld wrote:
>
> I was curious as if UltraDMA/33 support has been written into the
> 2.15x or 2.1.6x yet? when I boot a 2.1.5x kernel it says it realizes
> I have the pci chipset for Intel TX97 but it says DMA is disabled? Is
> this the ultradma support? and do I just use hdparm to turn it on?

In most cases, you can turn on DMA or UDMA by just doing

hdparm -d1 /dev/hd?

after booting.

I have only just acquired a UDMA drive & interface,
and expect to release driver updates for it sometime
in the next couple of weeks.

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