Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:02:32
Message-Id: 1152615484.4316.0.camel@linuxstation.homenetwork
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma? by "Hemmann
1 Yes,
2 I tried this and,
3 ' hdparm -d1 -X /dev/hda
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6 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
7 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
8 setting xfermode to 0 (default PIO mode)
9 using_dma = 0 (off)
10 linuxstation mbpssgms # whoami
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33 On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:00 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
34 > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote:
35 > > Hi,
36 > > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs
37 > > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also,
38 > > occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot. Is this normal for
39 > > reiser? And, how do I turn dma on?
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41 > man hdparn
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43 > hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX
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45 > isn't that part of the installation instructions?
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47 > dma has nothing to do with the fs.
48 --
49 Dr Gavin Seddon
50 Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
51 University of Manchester
52 Oxford Road
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