Michel Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Does mandrake does detect dma correctley? How can I chedk if dma is enabled? How can I enable it if it isn't? Here is some code from cat /proc/via(motherboard...): ---------VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration---------------- Highest DMA rate: UDMA100 BM-DMA base: 0xd000 PCI clock: 33.3MHz -----------------------Primary IDE-------Secondary IDE------ Read DMA FIFO flush: yes yes End Sector FIFO flush: no no Enabled: yes yes -------------------drive0----drive1----drive2----drive3----- Transfer Mode: UDMA UDMA UDMA PIO Address Setup: 30ns 30ns 30ns 120ns Cmd Active: 90ns 90ns 90ns 90ns Cmd Recovery: 30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns Data Active: 90ns 90ns 90ns 330ns Data Recovery: 30ns 30ns 30ns 270ns Cycle Time: 20ns 60ns 20ns 600ns Transfer Rate: 99.9MB/s 33.3MB/s 99.9MB/s 3.3MB/s I think iut is enabled, but I'm not sure.... Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Hi Michel You have to use HDPARM to check the status of all features of your hard drive. First of all install it by typing urpmi hdparm and do man hdparm to read a bit about that. Basically, you can check your HD performances by typing hdparm -tT /dev/hdX where X is the hard drive to be checked. To check if dma is enabled do hdparm -d /dev/hdX. Hope this help MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 This is a little old, but still worth reading.. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/20.../29/hdparm.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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