Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From:	Bernhard Auzinger <e0026053@×××××××××××××××××.at>
To:	gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-amd64] Re: System load during emerge
Date:	Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:29:32
Message-Id:	`200703042027.49014.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: System load during emerge by Peter Humphrey

1	> [Later...] I've now found that if I run "hdparm -d1 /dev/sda" from an X
2	> terminal I get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device", but
3	> when /etc/init.d/hdparm is run during boot I see [ok] for each drive. Looks
4	> like I've got some exploring to do.
5
6	As far as I know "hdparm -d1" is not available, because sata drives work with
7	libata (within the scsi subsystem) which uses dma for all drives.
8
9	rgds
10	Bernhard
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